The World’s Most Dangerous Inheritance
As Kim Jong Un mentors his heir apparent, he’s finding that nuclear weapons may be the ultimate guarantor of regime survival.
Father-daughter day.
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As the teenage daughter of Kim Jong Un, Kim Ju Ae has experienced what may be the most intense “bring-your-kid-to-work day” on the planet, featuring North Korea’s finest selection of sniper rifles and missile tests. While some have framed the dictator as a proud “girl dad,” the 50 nuclear warheads in Kim’s arsenal are not just for performative photo ops with a potential successor.