The arrival of Kim Jong Un In China it was certain that it would become a headline. But he was the elegantly dressed girl standing just behind him as he was out of his armored train that caught the attention of the analysts: Kim Ju-Eher leader’s daughter North Korea. According to South Korea’s secret information, Kim Ju-E is her father’s most likely successor, according to the BBC. But the information we know – including her precise age – is few. What exactly do we know so?

Kim Ju-E has been considered the second of Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Yu for many years. Their exact number and turn are not at all of course, as Kim is very secretive to his family, presenting his wife to the public only after some time from their marriage.

Kim Ju-E is their only child whose existence has been confirmed by the country’s leadership. No other child has appeared publicly.

The news about its existence was made known for the first time by an unexpected source: NBA basketball player Denis Rodman, who revealed to The Guardian in 2013 that “they held their baby, Ju-E” during a trip to the country.

After that, nothing was heard about her until November 2022, when she appeared with her father in launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

In February next year, she appeared in stamps and attended high profile receptions as the “respectable” daughter of Kim Jong Un.

According to the AP news agency, the National Intelligence Service of South Korea (NIS) provided the MPs some additional details on the little girl. According to the information, she liked horse riding, skiing and swimming, and allegedly attending home in the capital Pyongyang.

By January 2024, NIS had come to another conclusion: that the little girl is Kim Jong Un’s “most likely” successor – though there are “many variables” that still play a role, mainly because of her father’s young age.

Since then, she has appeared on her father’s side in many cases. Standing next to ICBM launches and military parades, he has been at the heart of attention and has received military greetings from senior military commanders.

But on Tuesday it was the first time they saw her outside North Korea, and this trip will probably further supply the speculation that she could succeed her father.

The Kim family, who has ruled North Korea since 1948, tells the citizens that it comes from a sacred generation, which means that only it can lead the country. However, there is speculations that Kim presented his daughter at this point to try to overcome prejudice in a deeply patriarchal state, in which he has never been a woman.