North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought a child believed to be his daughter to a lavish banquet at a military barracks, the latest sign the girl is possibly being groomed as his eventual successor in an authoritarian family regime dating back decades.
The girl – believed to be Kim’s second child, Ju Ae, who is around 9 years old – and her father were joined by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, in the visit to the barracks and subsequent banquet to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army , state media reported Wednesday. A Korean Central News Agency report described seeing Kim and “his respected” daughter as a dream come true for the military officials at the banquet.
reported that Kim Jong Un had made a speech at the banquet in which the North Korean leader praised and encouraged the military without making remarks about the United States or South Korea. Tuesday’s banquet came a day before what many experts expect to be North Korea’s biggest military parade ever. Pyongyang is coming off a record year of missile testing, and analysts are expecting to see examples of those missiles and more during an event expected to begin late Wednesday night.
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