According to analysts, North Korean state media described leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter as a “great person of guidance” on Saturday ( 16 ), using a term typically reserved for senior leaders, and making a point about her potential replacement.
The plural form of the honourable was used in both the English and Korean versions of an established Asian Central News Agency statement on Kim and his mother’s visit to a house farm, suggesting it sounded appropriate to both of them.
” The wonderful people of guidance, along with functionaries of the Party, the government and the military, went around the farm”, read the English- speech document, which ran with pictures of the piece.
Researchers claimed that the North had for the first time identified Kim’s girl as Ju Ae, not being named by Pyongyang’s state media but being referred to by North Korean intelligence as such.
Yang Moo- han, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, stated to AFP,” This is the first appearance of improving Kim Ju Ae to the rates of.”
The North Vietnamese term “hyangdo”- meaning guidance- is usually just reserved for” best leaders or successors” of the secluded regime, said Cheong Seong- chang, director of Center for Korean Peninsula Strategy at the Sejong Institute.
Kim Ju Ae’s level of personal devotion to her firmly suggests that she will succeed Kim Jong Un as North Korea’s leader, Cheong added.