Meet Kim Jong Uns 13-year-old daughter who is likely being groomed to replace him

She’s daddy’s little dictator.Kim Jong Un is said to be positioning his mysterious daughter — believed to be 13-year-old Kim Ju — as his successor, according to South Korea’s spy agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS).It would be a stunning development in North Korea’s rigidly male-dominated dynasty, but experts say that just because she’s a young girl doesn’t mean she would be a more gentle leader.“I imagine that Kim Jong Un would want her to rule in the same way he does,” Joseph Bermudez Jr., a senior fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told The Post.

He said that Ju Ae would be under immense pressure — and probably naturally inclined — to follow in her father’s footsteps if she succeeds him.NIS made the assessment that she’s her father’s likely successor after monitoring the schoolgirl’s increased prominent presence at official events with her father, even though he is believed to have a firstborn son.If true, it signals the biggest shake-up in the nation’s ruling Kim family since the chubby-cheeked strongman himself inherited the nuclear-armed throne from his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011.Until recently, Kim Ju Ae’s very existence was one of Pyongyang’s best-kept secrets.The world first caught a glimpse of her in November 2022, when she appeared at an intercontinental ballistic missile launch, bundled in a white puffer coat and holding her father’s hand as they inspected a hulking Hwasong-17 rocket.

State media called her his “respected” or “most beloved daughter” — but never referred to her by name.Western outlets believe her name to be Kim Ju Ae after US basketball star Dennis Rodman visited Jong Un in Pyongyang in 2013.

He told The Guardian, “I held their baby Ju Ae and spoke with (Kim’s wife) as well.”Over the years, she’s appeared at military parades, weapons tests, banquets with generals and even formal state events — often positioned front and center, flanked ...