"First appearing in public at a long-range missile test in November 2022, Kim Ju Ae has since accompanied her father to an increasing number of events, including weapons tests, military parades and factory openings. She traveled with him to Beijing last September for Kim's first summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in six years on the sidelines of a World War II event."
"Speculation about her political future intensified last month when she joined her parents on a New Year's Day visit to Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a sacred family mausoleum displaying the embalmed bodies of her late grandfather and great-grandfather, the country's first- and second-generation leaders. South Korean officials initially expressed doubt that she could be chosen as a North Korean leader, citing the country's deeply conservative culture and tradition of male-dominated leadership."
South Korea's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers it believes Kim Jong Un's teenage daughter, believed to be Kim Ju Ae and about 13 years old, is close to being designated as North Korea's future leader. NIS officials said they are monitoring whether she appears with him before thousands of delegates at the upcoming Workers' Party Congress. Kim Ju Ae first appeared publicly at a missile test in November 2022 and has since accompanied her father to weapons tests, military parades, factory openings, and an international summit in Beijing. Her New Year's visit to the Kumsusan Palace intensified succession speculation and prompted a reassessment of earlier doubts about a female successor.
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