North Korea has an heir to its brutal regime, South Korean spies reportedly found out.
While North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been frequently filling the news pages, he’s largely kept his family matters from public view.
Still, South Korean intelligence recently informed the South’s lawmakers that Kim’s first child, born in 2010, is a boy, according to the Sunday Times.
That is important, since the North regime’s ideology requires that a male of the leading family bloodline inherits power.
Questions over transition of power within the regime have also been fueled by the death of Kim’s estranged half brother Kim Jong Nam. The man was poisoned with the VX nerve agent at a Malaysian airport in February, presumably at the behest of Kim.
Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of previous North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in Macau on June 4, 2010. JoongAng Sunday/AFP/Getty Images
