Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul
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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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
Worldwide Asians are a majority.
https://youtu.be/iEtw3XJoJrE
https://youtu.be/dDJa1_fLVeA
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. 🤘🏻
Shut the fuck up, Donny
Queoup
If the "p" is silent, is it also a homonym?
Or she is going to get executed
Coup what shit? This speculation seven layers deep.
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!
Look at North Korea, breaking down those gender boundaries in the male-dominated dictatorship world.
That photo makes me feel old - I remember when Kim Jong Un looked young and stupid, now he looks old and stupid
Exactly! When did he age that much? It's crazy.
I suspect the last decade of dealing with Trump and Xi hasn't been the easiest time of his life. Just look at before and after pics of normal US presidents. That job ages them a decade in 4 years
he has to play nice with XI, in order to get funding and AID from which NK is entirely dependant on china. helping russia is like straining thier resources too.
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.
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.
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.
So close...
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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.
Why would they? There's more power in having south Korea be an operating center in Asia, than overthrowing North Korea and allowing for possible reunification. Idk, seems like it would go against most of the CIAs goals that they usually have.
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.
Does he also have a giant tumor like his dad did?
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!
Finally, the people's girlboss leader!
So the US can't even let women control their own bodies but North Korea can get a woman to lead the country? The fuck kind of timeline are we even on? Why haven't the epstein files gotten the idiot impeached yet?
'Cos most of the people who would impeach him are in said files?
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?
What Thatcher taught us was that it's acceptable for women to be in charge as long as they're overtly callous.
There was nothing acceptable about that monster.
Well, her reign of terror might have spawned a generation of pretty good fantasy and science fiction writers, to be fair, probably as a form of escapism, but that doesn't come close to compensating for all the harm she did.
I didn't hit a paywall, but this archive link should work for you.
Democracy is when you select an heir to your throne.
Welcome President Baron Trump
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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.
Firstly, to say that Kim family is merely ceremonial mean you have to proof that someone else is running the show, that hatched all the plans, that have the final say. We don't have that information. What we have is he is the single most powerful person in North Korea, that rule and guide the country, that inherited the power from his father.
Of course, a king need a general and a treasurer, whether they are the one in control or not is not a known fact, and that will remained a mystery until someone close to them speak.
So yes, with the information the world have, we can safely say North Korea is run by a single family.
I absolutely would not have described Queen Elizabeth as the most powerful person in the country at any time of her reign.
The Queen/King is quite literally above the law in the UK. So yes.
Influential? Yes. The current clown not so much.
I can also say the same for all prime minister and president in country without monarch and with constitutional monarch. That is exactly what a leader of the country are. What is exactly your point here?
Let me do one better: what is your evidence that say otherwise?
Yes, we can definitively prove that the NK political theater is run by the Kim family. Watch any video of their "congress" meeting, and it's just a group of NPCs clapping mindlessly to everything Kim Jong il says.
Being intentionally obtuse doesn't make you look smarter.
And how much political power do the monarchs have?
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
Anyone with enough money can order assassination of anyone on any foreign soil. That isn't really an argument.
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.
We are about to see some of the most effective utiliseations of girl power in history
diversity win!
What fucking diversity, she's still a Kim...
Well, most people there are...
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.
You’ve activated my very stupid trap card called Teresa Duarte
Oh no, must I go to freehold now?
Just get there before it all shuts down
https://whatmyuseragent.com/
I thought Mr. Nobutthole was invincible and would never die.
Well, when the rest of the world is lead by pedophiles, you play the card that will make taking them over easy.
The onion did this bit 20 years ago
Fox news: Is North Korea "woke" now?
Anything coming from SK about NK is extremely unreliable
So NK is entering it's girlboss era? How very progiessive (/s).
The Dance of Dragons (but with nukes) incoming.
So thats how communismn works