North Korea’s aggressive publicity campaign for Kim Jong Un’s 10-year-old daughter could be bad news for the dictator’s notorious sister.
While Ju Ae’s image is appearing in a propaganda blitz portending her rise to the top of the, auntie Yo Jong may have to watch her back, David Straub, a former senior diplomat in the American embassy in Seoul, told The Daily Beast.
“My guess is that Kim was getting really upset by all of the outside media on his sister being his potential or likely successor,” said Bruce Bennett, long-time North Korea analyst at the RAND Corporation. With Kim Jong Un “hardly a picture of health,” Revere noted, “this raises the question of whether Kim Yo Jong might eventually be called upon to play the role of adviser and protector once assigned to Jang Song Thaek.”On the anniversary Monday of Kim Jong Nam’s assassination, North Korea released a series of postage stamps showing Kim Ju Ae with her proud father at the test-firing of North Korea’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong 17, in November.
Choi, former director of the Korea Institute for National Unification which monitors North Korea, believes Yo Jong’s rise “is unacceptable” to Kim’s wife, Ri Sol Joo. Ri might be “afraid her children will be in big trouble if Yo Jong takes over Jong-un’s power,” said Choi, who’s made a career watching North Korea. That alone makes her “more likely to be undisciplined.”Meanwhile, the North Korean media has missed no opportunity to show off Kim Ju Ae’s status.
Victor Cha, who was in charge of North Korea issues with the National Security Council during the George W. Bush presidency, sees the burst of publicity for Ju Ae as showing once again that “succession in North Korea is always vertical, not horizontal”—meaning power has to pass to the offspring, not to a brother or sister.
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