Kim Jong Un’s Daughter Becomes Fixture in North Korea Weapons Tests: In Pictures

  • Images show North Korean leader watching launch with daughter
  • Little is known about girl who is appearing more in spotlight
Kim Jong Un and his daughter inspect a missile at Pyongyang International Airport on Nov. 18. Source: KCNA/KNS/AP Photo
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While children across North Korea spent the day in school, the preteen daughter of leader Kim Jong Un was with her dad watching a test of a new missile designed to obliterate a US city in a nuclear strike.

North Korea hasn’t said whether she has any siblings. Her age remains a mystery. The world doesn’t even officially know her name, and yet, since November she has been a staple of the state’s propaganda apparatus. She has appeared by her father’s side as he fires off weapons, dines with generals and presides over parades with thousands of goose-stepping soldiers.