Kim Jong Un introduced his daughter to the world in November 2022 with a show of affection and menace, holding her hand in front of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Since then, state media has shown Kim Ju Ae more and more prominently next to her father, the leader of North Korea.
Now she is being hailed as a "great person of guidance” — a sign, experts say, that she is perhaps being groomed to take the reins of the isolated, nuclear-armed regime one day.
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