The North Korean chief, Kim Jong-un, has attended many picture ops together with his daughter Kim Ju-ae in current months, including to hypothesis she shall be designated as the long run supreme chief.
Jean H Lee, journalist and former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Related Press, tells Helen Pidd what we all know in regards to the teenager.
“North Korea may be very secretive in terms of the primary household,” Jean tells Helen. “They solely discuss with her because the ‘beloved daughter’, or the ‘cherished daughter’, or the ‘revered daughter’… What we do know is that she has been offered to the individuals. She’s been everywhere in the state media. I imply, the images and the movies are simply unimaginable. However we don’t know precisely when she was born.”
Jean explains the which means behind the pictures we have now seen of the daughter, together with ones of her firing a pistol.
“I’ll say that this picture of a girl firing a pistol goes again to a standard picture in North Korea… So behind closed doorways and inside their mythology and inside their storytelling, that was very a lot part of the making of the long run chief.”
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