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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.

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0:00.0	Well, you know, speaking of Kim Jong, have you heard about his successor?
0:05.0	No.
0:05.5	Well, it appears that he is preparing to name his daughter, who we believe is just 13 years old, as his successor.
0:12.9	And the reason that we know this is because state media has shown photos of the two of them
0:18.7	where she is walking in front of him and appears taller than him.
0:22.4	Whoa.
0:23.0	And the thinking is they would not do this unless they were prepping her to rule a country.
0:27.9	So we are about to get the greatest sequel to the Princess Diaries of all time.
0:32.8	Imagine the Princess Diaries, but you are in charge of a nuclear state that is a global pariah.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.7	I'll say it.
0:40.3	I think 13 is too young to run a dictatorship.
0:43.1	Kevin, stop gatekeeping.
0:44.4	If it's old enough to look at Instagram reels, it's not.
0:48.3	In Australia and several other places, it is not old enough to look at Instagram Reels.
0:56.5	Here's my new rule.
0:57.6	Here's my new proposed tech regulation.
0:59.6	Until you're old enough to go on social media,
1:01.7	you can't run a dictatorship.
1:08.1	I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist
1:09.7	at the New York Times.
1:12.2	I'm Casey New York from Platformer. And this is Hard Fork.
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