Kim Joo-ae, the 10-year-old daughter of North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, watched the military parade from the special podium on September 9, the day North Korea established its regime. It was right next to her father, Kim Jong-un. An image of a wall-mounted air conditioner installed only in front of Kim Jong-un’s father and daughter was revealed in the Rodong Sinmun, which North Koreans view, and a scene in which a five-star soldier appears to be reporting to Kim Joo-ae while kneeling before her was also exposed. The analysis suggests that Kim Joo-ae’s appearance in her early teens, wearing high-heeled shoes and a suit, and accompanying her father’s events at a closer distance than other executives, is reminiscent of Kim Jong-un’s teenage years.
A photo of a young Kim Jong-un revealed by North Korea’s Korean Central Television in 2020. /Chosun Central TV
In 2020, North Korea’s Korean Central Television aired the documentary film ‘Embrace of Shining Life: Closest to the Sun’, which covers the life of Hyon Chol-hae, General Advisor to the Ministry of National Defense, and revealed several photos of Kim Jong-un when he was a teenager. This was the first time North Korea revealed images of Kim Jong-un as a teenager. Unlike now, Kim Jong-un, with his sharp jawline, was wearing a suit and standing next to his father, Chairman of the National Defense Commission Kim Jong-il, rather than other executives. He was wearing a somewhat awkward-looking suit and appeared to be standing with his back turned like his father, Kim Jong-il.
A photo of a young Kim Jong-un (far left) released by North Korea’s Korean Central Television in 2020. /Chosun Central TV
A former high-ranking official of the Ministry of Unification said, “Before the documentary video was released, few people would have known that Kim Jong-un had accompanied Kim Jong-il’s field guidance since he was a teenager.” “(Kim Jong-cheol) and his family were arguing, but inside North Korea, it is said that Kim Jong-un, the third son, was identified and prepared as the successor early on,” he said.
North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and his daughter Kim Joo-ae take a commemorative photo with soldiers when they visited the Naval Headquarters last August. /Korea Central News Agency Yonhap News
Scenes that support the analysis that Kim Joo-ae is receiving succession training continue to be released, but it is unclear whether she will actually be chosen as the successor. At his first press conference since taking office on the 14th, Unification Minister Kim Young-ho said, “(Kim Jong-un)’s daughter’s public appearance is part of a high-level propaganda campaign to divert attention to avoid the international criticism North Korea is receiving as it develops nuclear weapons and missiles.” “The government is keeping all possibilities open and watching closely,” he said. At the same time, he said, “The unprecedented hereditary system in history does not conform to common sense, and in the end, the biggest victims are the North Korean people.”
On the screen of the recording broadcast of the civil defense military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the regime held at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang on the 9th, Military Government Guidance Director Park Jong-cheon is kneeling and whispering to State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un’s daughter Joo-ae. /Chosun Central TV
Park Won-gon, director of the North Korean Studies Center at the East Asian Institute (EAI), said in the video ‘Kim Joo-ae and the direction of North Korea’s four generations of hereditary succession’ posted on the EAI website on the 26th, “It is a possibility that a female leader will take power in North Korea, which maintains a male-centered conservative Confucian culture. “Considering that this is difficult, it is highly likely that Kim Joo-ae will remain in the role of a propaganda tool to strengthen Kim Jong-un’s ruling system.”
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2023-09-28 00:36:18
