Kim Jong Un’s daughter makes first public visit to North Korean leaders’ mausoleum

MADRID, January 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Kim Ju Ae, the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, made her first public visit to the Kumsusan Mausoleum, the resting place of the dynasty’s mortal remains, in an act that once again places the young woman in front of the cameras amid speculation about her future position in the North Korean government.

The young woman, whose figure is so restricted that we do not even know her exact age (the country’s experts estimate that she is between 12 and 13 years old), first appeared before the public in November 2022 when she accompanied her father during the inspection of a missile and, since then, her presence has been gradually measured.

This is why the visit he made on January 1 is his most important visit because of its symbolic importance: Kumsusan is the final resting place of his great-grandfather and founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (official name of the country), Kim Il Sung, and of his grandfather and father of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il.

However, the North Korean media wanted to minimize her presence as much as possible: Kim Ju Ae only appears in an official photo and neither the official North Korean news agency KCNA nor the government party spokesperson, “Rodong Sinmun”, explicitly mentions her in their account of the ceremony in the Hall of Eternal Life.

“All participants expressed their firm determination to uphold with unwavering loyalty the ideology and leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un and to shoulder their responsibilities and duties at the forefront of the sacred cause of achieving unlimited prosperity and development of the great Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and promoting the well-being of the people,” they simply proclaim.