søndag 1. mars 2026

Kim’s daughter is a princess – but not necessarily crown princess

South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, is reported to have issued an assessment earlier this month that Kim Jong Un has settled on a daughter of about 13 as his successor.

It’s possible the future will play out the way the government analysts are now predicting. The NIS, after all, does have vast resources to call upon before making such a determination. And the agency’s vision got a publicity boost when the daughter and Kim appeared in matching leather jackets at the Workers’ Party Congress, held in Pyongyang during the week that’s just ending.