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North Korea grooms a 13-year-old girl to inherit a nuclear arsenal

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Issued formal succession assessment

South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers on April 6 that it is now "fair to view" Kim Ju Ae — the approximately 13-year-old daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — as his designated successor. The assessment, the agency's most definitive public statement on succession in the nuclear-armed state, cited her completion of successor training and an expanding public profile that includes driving tanks and firing weapons at military events.

Updated 3 hours ago