Kim Ju Ae: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un chooses daughter as heir, Seoul says
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South Korea's spy agency says Ki Ju Ae's prominent public presence indicates she is the chosen heir.

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.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        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.

          • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            3 months ago

            I absolutely would not have described Queen Elizabeth as the most powerful person in the country at any time of her reign.

            • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
              21·
              3 months ago

              The Queen/King is quite literally above the law in the UK. So yes.
              Influential? Yes. The current clown not so much.

              • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
                9·
                3 months ago

                I’m going to invite you to go ahead and rephrase that in a way that is not completely nonsensical. Cuz I don’t know what the fuck you’re trying to say there or what it had to do with anything I said.

          • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
            9·
            3 months ago

            I don’t doubt this, but you could have said the same about Queen Elizabeth before she got in a box

            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?

            This requires more evidence. What’s your evidence for this? What material reasons do you have to believe that the decisions come from Kim personally and not from the communist party?

            Let me do one better: what is your evidence that say otherwise?

              • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
                41·
                3 months ago

                I would love to have source for your claim on north korea, because your claim on saudi arabia is all but nonsense, and is really easily dispelled with a little bit of internet search.

                And across the history, some king are known to have build a lot of public infrastructure, while others don’t. That isn’t a sign of governance type, that is the sign of the competence of the leadership.

                  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    You:

                    For example, Saudi Arabia, a widely known example of a monarchy with absolutist power, has 80% of the population composed of immigrants without rights who get stripped of their passports and get treated as slaves.

                    Also you:

                    When 40%ish of the population is without basic human rights

                    Wanna try again?

                    Then you:

                    There’s no public healthcare

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Saudi_Arabia

                    Health care in Saudi Arabia is a national health care system in which the government provides free universal healthcare coverage through a number of government agencies.

                    Then you also:

                    no infrastructure for poor people (trains, public schools, people-centered urbanism…), etc.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Saudi_Arabia

                    Public education in Saudi Arabia—from primary education through college—is open to every Saudi citizen. Education is the second-largest sector of government spending in Saudi Arabia.[7] Saudi Arabia spends 8.8% of its gross domestic product on education, which is nearly double the global average of 4.6%.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mashaaer_Al_Mugaddassah_Metro_line

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Metro

                    There are several other line being planned.

                  • lad@programming.devEnglish
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    I thought it was 80% migrants? Also, except for the bit about permission to leave country (crazy, imo) that sounds like a normal work permit in many conventionally democratic countries, where employer also uses it’s power over migrant workers. It might be worse in practice, of course, that depends on courts

      • supernight52@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        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.