Kim Jong-Un brings his daughter to work — to mark 75 years since North Korean army was founded
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Un brings his daughter to work — to mark 75 years since his country’s army was founded.
Kim Ju Ae, believed to be nine or ten years old, helped him inspect troops in capital city Pyongyang.
Earlier she joined Jong Un, 39, and his wife Ri Sol Ju, 33, for a banquet with military officials.
In November she joined her father at a test launch of a nuclear missile.
The pair were pictured walking hand in hand inspecting the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile before it was fired
Kim is believed to have as many as three children, two girls and a boy, experts say.
Michael Madden, a North Korea leadership expert at the US-based Stimson Centre, said at the time: "This is the first observed occasion where we have seen Kim Jong-un's daughter at a public event.
"It is highly significant and represents a certain degree of comfort on Kim Jong-un's part that he would bring her out in public in such fashion."
Her unexpected appearance raised the prospect that leadership of the totalitarian state could pass to a fourth generation of Kims, and suggests that nuclear weapons will be part of that inheritance, analysts said.
Mr Madden added: "The nuclear weapons programme and Kim Jong-un’s accomplishments around them is a family legacy for whomever his successor is.
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"So, what we are seeing, is Kim telecasting that fourth-generation hereditary succession is highly likely to happen.
"This is intended to communicate it to the wider North Korean elite as well as to foreign governments.”