Though many will question whether a patriarchal country such as North Korea can have a female leader, Jean H Lee, a journalist who reported from inside the country for nine years, points out that there are several women already in high office in the secretive state.
Kim Jong Un may be appearing with his daughter in public to present her as a potential successor as he seeks to portray his family as being a dynasty like the British Royal Family, an expert on the secretive country has said.
Ms Lee, who reported from inside North Korea from 2008 to 2017, said the most striking images of Kim Ju Ae are from when she attended"When you look at these pictures she's front and centre. She is there. It's like this tableau of father, mother, daughter. And I think what people noticed, of course, first and foremost was, 'oh my gosh, he's presenting his daughter'. What does that mean?", she told the latest episode of the Sky News Daily podcast.
North Korea's foreign minister Choe Son Hui, is a woman and Mr Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong is one of his top foreign policy officials. "I'm sure there is in some part a strategy of trying to portray themselves, kind of like the Royal Family in the United Kingdom.
"Now, that might seem like a crazy idea, but when we look at what capabilities North Korea is focusing on now it seems it has conducted a lot of long-range missile tests.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerMs Lee, who is Korean-American and now works as a Korean expert at the Wilson Institute in Washington, stressed that the people in North Korea are"not as robotic as they may seem" and many are the"most opinionated people I know".
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