North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter seen as future successor: spy agency

South Korea's espionage agency, the National Intelligence Service, informed lawmakers Thursday that it thinks North Korean person Kim Jong Un's teenage girl is adjacent to being acceptable isolated arsenic the regime's aboriginal leader, The Associated Press reported.

Kim is the 3rd procreation of men successful his household to regularisation North Korea.

In a closed-door briefing, NIS officials said they are intimately monitoring whether Kim’s girl — believed to beryllium named Kim Ju Ae and astir 13 years aged — appears with him earlier thousands of delegates astatine the upcoming Workers’ Party Congress, said lawmaker Lee Seong Kweun, who attended the meeting.

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This representation taken connected Jan. 27, 2026, and released by North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) connected Jan. 28, 2026, shows North Korean person Kim Jong Un (C) and his girl Kim Ju Ae (R) inspecting a trial firing of the renewed large-caliber rocket launcher system, astatine an undisclosed determination successful North Korea.  (KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

"In the past, (NIS) described Kim Ju Ae arsenic being successful the midst of ‘successor training.’ What was notable contiguous is that they utilized the word ‘successor-designate stage,’ a displacement that’s rather significant," Lee noted, according to the outlet.

In 2023, South Korea's National Intelligence Service indicated to lawmakers that the North Korean person and his woman astir apt had an older lad arsenic good arsenic younger, 3rd kid of chartless gender, according to The Associated Press.

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This representation taken connected Jan. 27, 2026, and released by North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) connected Jan. 28, 2026, shows North Korean person Kim Jong Un (C) and his girl Kim Ju Ae (front) inspecting a trial firing of the renewed large-caliber rocket launcher system, astatine an undisclosed determination successful North Korea.  (KCNA VIA KNS / AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea is 1 of the world's fewer nuclear-armed nations, making it a unsocial menace connected the planetary stage.

A 2025 U.S. Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment stated that "Kim remains committed to expanding the fig of North Korea’s atomic warheads and improving its rocket capabilities to endanger the Homeland and U.S. forces, citizens, and allies, and to weaken U.S. powerfulness successful the AsiaPacific region, arsenic evidenced by the gait of the North’s rocket formation tests and the regime’s nationalist touting of its uranium enrichment capabilities."

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This representation taken connected Dec. 20, 2025, and released by North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS connected Dec. 23, 2025, shows North Korean person Kim Jong Un (R) and his girl Ju Ae (L) inspecting the Milyong Hotel, which was precocious completed successful the Samjiyon tourer territory of Ryanggang Province. (KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

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"Russia is progressively supporting North Korea’s atomic presumption successful speech for Pyongyang's enactment to Moscow’s warfare against Ukraine," the appraisal noted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report