Seoul's Unification Ministry on Monday added its voice to growing speculation around Kim Jong Un's succession plans, saying they have not 'ruled out' that his daughter could be next in line to lead North Korea.
This picture taken on Jan. 6, 2021 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Jan. 7, 2021 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking during the second day of the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang.
It has redoubled speculation that the teen, who often appears next to her father at key public events, could have been chosen as the next leader of the nuclear-armed North, for a third hereditary succession. However, he warned that if Ju Ae were to take her father's place as the fourth leader of the reclusive state, "North Korean people will bear the brunt of the fallout", he said.
She has been seen at many of her father's official engagements, including military drills, a visit to a weapons factory, and a stop at a new chicken farm. Seoul had initially indicated that Kim and his wife Ri had their first child, a boy, in 2010, and that Ju Ae was their second child.
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