'Credible intelligence' reveals North Korea's successor to Kim Jong Un, South Korea says

South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) thinks that North Korean person Kim Jong Un's girl has been lined up to beryllium her father's eventual successor, lawmakers noted connected Monday, according to Reuters.

The NIS indicated to lawmakers that its investigation stems from what it characterized arsenic "credible intelligence" that it had gathered, Reuters reported, citing briefings by ruling and absorption enactment members pursuing a closed-door parliamentary meeting.

Video footage posted past period showed Kim and his girl connected a tank.

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This photograph provided by the North Korean authorities shows its person Kim Jong Un, beforehand right, his daughter, reportedly named Kim Ju Ae, and different soldiers connected a vessel astatine a subject grooming basal successful North Korea, connected March 19, 2026. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

The South Korean bureau indicated that the country of the miss driving a vessel was meant to stress her expected subject aptitude and antagonistic doubts concerning a pistillate successor, lawmakers noted, according to the outlet.

North Korean state-run media KCNA published photos of the North Korean person and his girl with a vessel past month, pursuing anterior images of the miss utilizing firearms, Reuters reported.

The girl is thought to beryllium astir 13 years aged and named Ju Ae.

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In this photograph provided by the North Korean government, its person Kim Jong Un's daughter, center, tries retired a caller pistol astatine a mill producing pistols and different airy arms astatine an undisclosed spot successful North Korea Wednesday, March 11, 2026.  (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

The outlet reported that ruling Democratic Party lawmaker Park Sun-won indicated that the scenes are meant to wage "homage" to the North Korean leader's subject appearances years agone erstwhile helium was being acceptable up to win his begetter arsenic authorities leader.

​Korea Institute for National Unification expert Hong Min said the vessel country is not capable to find that she has been established arsenic her father's successor, pointing retired that she appeared with her begetter alternatively than independently, dissimilar her father's autarkic subject appearances arsenic helium was being groomed to instrumentality the helm.

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This representation taken connected December 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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North Korea is 1 of the world's lone nuclear-armed nations.