What’s going on with Kim Jong Un and his daughter?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
She has now been seen in public in North Korea at military events and parades, but why has Kim Jong Un decided to bring her out now?
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson explores what it means for the secretive North Korean leader to reveal his daughter in public. Niall is joined by Jean H. Lee, who set up the first Associated Press bureau in the country and James Fretwell, an analyst at the North Korean news monitoring service NK News.
Producer: Soila Apparicio and Rosie Gillott
Interviews Producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:11.9 | Congratulations to Kim Jong-un, the leader of totalitarian dictatorship, North Korea. |
| 1:14.9 | As we've recently learned, he has a daughter. |
| 1:18.3 | But that is pretty much all we know. |
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