She made her first public appearance in 2022, when Kim brought her to the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. By 2023, she was appearing more frequently in public with her father and was featured on some of the country’s stamps.
The NIS told South Korean lawmakers in March 2023 that the girl was being home-schooled in Pyongyang and enjoyed horseback riding, skiing, and swimming, The Associated Press reported.
The agency said she was her father’s “most likely” heir in January 2024, its first such assessment on the possible succession.
The North Korea news agency KCNA published photos last month of the girl driving an army tank with her father riding behind her. Earlier in March, state media published photos of the two firing pistols during an inspection of an ammunition factory.
The NIS said on Monday that the photos of the leader’s daughter were meant to eliminate doubts about a female heir and stress her military capability, according to lawmakers. Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has never had a female supreme leader.
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