Ex-North Korean diplomat Ko Young Hwan outlined to Newsweek apparent rivalries among the country's leading women and a potential aid-for-human rights agreement.
, the first senior diplomat to defect from North Korea has revealed his views on a potential power struggle emerging at the highest levels of Supreme Leader's dynasty, and his plan for a possible path forward to engage the ruler of the isolated, nuclear-armed nation on human rights issues.
Showing Kim Ju Ae alongside Kim Jong Un at missile sites, live-fire launches and military events indicates that the ruler"thinks that the transfer of nuclear weapons to the future is a means to protect his own nation and he wants to portray that image," according to Ko. And though secrecy continues to surround the Kim family, Kim Jong Un has a record of breaking the traditionally male-dominated mold.
Ko highlighted evidence of insider frictions leading up to Kim Ju Ae's public debut in an account of an alleged altercation between Kim Yo Jong and influential former Propaganda and Agitation Department Director Kim Ki Nam. Despite Kim Ki Nam's powerful position, rumors among North Koreans are that"she shouted and threw documents" during this dispute and that"she was very angry.
Recent examples include the absence of any clear shots of Kim Yo Jong throughout state media coverage of a February 7 military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Korean People's Army, possibly only appearing in a barely recognizable cameo in the far background as Kim Jong Un walked the red carpet with his wife and daughter.
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