Seoul’s spy agency says it believes the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has a ‘younger sibling of unknown gender’
2-MIN READ2-MINAgence France-PressePublished: 7:18pm, 10 Sep 2026North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s daughter and apparent successor is believed to have a younger sibling, South Korea’s spy agency has said, offering a more detailed view of the ruling family’s line of succession.
Seoul’s spy agency previously said Kim was thought to have three children, but some uncertainty remained on the number of offspring as well as the order of their birth.
The Kim dynasty is now in its third generation ruling the closed-off nation, and the current leader’s children would be potentially poised to take over one day.
Kim’s daughter, Kim Ju-ae, was first introduced to the public in 2022 when she accompanied her father to the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Seoul had initially indicated that Kim and his wife Ri Sol-ju had their first child, a boy, in 2010, and that Kim Ju-ae was their second child.
