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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has selected his daughter as his heir, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.
Kim Ju Ae - who is believed to be 13 - has in recent months been pictured beside her father in high-profile events like a visit to Beijing in September, her first known trip abroad.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it took a “range of circumstances” into account including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events" in making this assessment.
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Finally, the people’s girlboss leader!
That photo makes me feel old - I remember when Kim Jong Un looked young and stupid, now he looks old and stupid
I was hoping the era of women leaders was going to be a little less fascist. Does anyone have a link to the article not behind a paywall?
I didn’t hit a paywall, but this archive link should work for you.
Let’s hope they don’t secretly have the protomolecule sample.
Eh if they did, I doubt they’d have long term patience to test validate and perfect a weapon before using it, they’d just dump it in the south and see what happens.
Diversity win! This up and coming dictator is a young woman!
More 👏🏼 female 👏🏼 dictators 👏🏼
- Neoliberals, probably
Try tankies
Can we call her a minority?
You can, but she might have you shot for it
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His sister is gonna coup that shit up.
As she’s then effectively getting in line, would that be a coup queue? Seems to track for NoKo. 🤪
Kinda makes me wish one of them thought screaming was singing, then we could dub them “NoKo Oh-No”.
FWIW, the other thread I was fiddling with mentally was re: the term “chuffed” and its implied verb “to chuff” to create this headline: “Coup queue for NoKo chuff” 🤣
I hope she doesn’t get a cold, otherwise that would be a ‘coup queue cachoo’.
I am the walrus?
Sorry, we’ve already assigned you the role of eggman.
I call the mighty Quin. 🤘🏻
Queoup
If the “p” is silent, is it also a homonym?
Or she is going to get executed
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it took a “range of circumstances” into account including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events" in making this assessment.
Coup what shit? This speculation seven layers deep.
We are about to see some of the most effective utiliseations of girl power in history
Well there goes the legacy of terrible haircuts. Three generations of shite hair down the drain!
She hasn’t taken over yet. There’s still time!
Exhibit A:
Don’t underestimate her haircut styling skills!
He looks like shit for being in his early 40s. I wonder if there is something going on with his health and that’s why he is appointing a 13 year old heir. The article doesn’t elaborate on that but it says he “appears young and healthy.” He looks like he is about to pop. I don’t think I’d describe him as young or healthy looking.
Kim isn’t in the best of shape but he isn’t at Donald Trump levels of poor health. As for naming his daughter the heir to the throne it could be she is the only legitimate child he has. In terms of male relatives the only one of the Kim family that is not as old or older than him (and not dead) is Kim Han Sol, and if anyone is paying attention it’s obvious why he isn’t getting the throne
Kim Han Sol
So close…
He’s almost 40 years younger than Trump, so I don’t think it’s comparable. I’m the same age as Kim and I know no one who is in as bad as shape as him (maybe one or two co-workers who are morbidly obese). There is nothing healthy about being 5’3” and 275 lbs.
Yes but it’s not “dude is going to croak any day now.”
Even more so as his status and position gives him access to the best medical care
I don’t know. Heart attacks are a real thing. Your 40s get weird with health stuff. I agree that I don’t think he is going to croak any day now, but it does seem like they are preparing for him to be gone. His father only lived to 60.
I don’t dispute in having a successor prepared for when the time comes. It’s just that for a monarchy it’s good policy to have an heir ready in the wings, otherwise you get a lovely power struggle.
In this case it would be between factions of the ruling elite that are die hard cultists and factions that didn’t drink the kool-aid and just want to stay in power.
Normally a population opposition would also be in the mix but unlike Venezuela and Iran NK seems to have taken care of that
Look what Obama looked like when he entered office and how he looked when he left. And i bet being at the top of North Korea, surrounded by people who whould absolutely love to acquire your position by all means would be… well… a bit more stressful.
surrounded by people who whould absolutely love to acquire your position by all means
You think the third generational decedent of a national hero is going to be toppled by his most fiercely loyal family friends?
If the Kim family could have been pushed out by coup within the military, the CIA would have financed that shit 40 years ago.
I remember just about every Kim not being very healthy. The jokes wrote themselves with Kim Jong-il.
Yep. And he died at 60. Younger Kim is on the same track.
I read a news article about that mentioned he was thrusted into power in his 20s so maybe he wanted to start introducing her to the system early.
I thouhgt he was in his early 40s like 10 years ago. Whoa!
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Democracy is when you select an heir to your throne.
Welcome President Baron Trump
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Would you consider the Netherlands or Denmark a democracy? Both have literal monarchies.
Constitutional Monarchy are very different and limited form of monarchy, where the monarch have very limited power or are simply there for ceremonial purpose. The king doesn’t command the parliament, and cannot make policy, and at most can suggest it.
I live in a country with constitutional monarchy and they mostly just there, occasionally making remark and have their opinions. They however still have the power to veto bill and reject project, but it happen very very rarely. They’re mostly there as religious leader and political weapon for some.
So to answer your question, yes, Netherlands and Denmark both practice constitutional monarchy, hence they’re still considered democracy.
Ok, now, can you conceive that the Kim family’s role is more representative as in a constitutional monarchy (such as that of my homeland of Spain) than it is de-facto monarchical power? I’m not saying that the DPRK’s parliament is democratically elected, I’m questioning whether we can, with the information at our disposal in the west, affirm that the politics of the DPRK are controlled by one particular family and not by, say, the cadres of their communist party.
And how much political power do the monarchs have?
And how much political power does the Kim family really have? How much do we really know about the DPRK?
Hm, how much Power does a family have that is venerated like a god and that can order the assassination of family members on foreign soil? Surely the Kim’s and the Danish monarch are the same
Any president can order the assassination of people on foreign soil, look at the US under Biden assassinating tens of thousands of Palestinians in Israel, or what happened to Lady Dee at the behest of the royal family of England.
But I’m not familiar with what you’re describing in particular, could you please gimme a source to read on?
Biden was the elected president of the US. He held power over political decisions, just like the Kims, but unlike the Danish Monarch. Kind of defeating your own argument here.
Lady Dee theories are interesting, haven’t read much about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam Kim Jong-nam was a potential rival for the Throne and got killed for it. The Kims do hold the power in the DPRK.
The onion did this bit 20 years ago
