North Korea: Kim Jong Un shows his daughter to the public for the first time during a missile test

The daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared in public for the first time on Saturday (19) in photos released by North Korean state media. Ballistic missile test An intercontinental Friday event, on which the girl accompanied her father.

The official Central News Agency (KCNA) contented itself with reporting that Kim “personally supervised” the launch with his beloved daughter and wife, North Korean First Lady Ri Sol-ju, without providing further details about the girl.

Five out of 20 photos released by KCNA from the previous day’s test show a girl in a white coat listening to her father as she appears to give instructions to the staff around her, and contemplating from a distance with Kim the missile in its take-off phase or walking side by side. It is awarded to him next to the projectile shuttle.

North Korean official media rarely publishes information about the close relatives of the Kim family, which has ruled the country with an iron fist since the 1940s. Kim Jong Un’s daughter is no exception, as official propaganda has not previously acknowledged her existence.

All the information about the descendants of Kim Jong Un, who is believed to be 38 years old, has been suggested by experts with connections within the hermetic country. Many of them guarantee that Kim will have three children with Ri in 2010, 2012 or 2013 and 2017, without being able to provide more information about it.

After one of his extravagant visits to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un, former US basketball player Dennis Rodman said publicly in 2013 that he was carrying in his arms his “daughter Ju Ae,” who was a baby at the time.

It was the only time a great-grandson of the North Korean dictator was called by his first name. It is not known if the girl in the photos released on KCNA today is the aforementioned Kim Joo Ae or if she is an older sister.