The commander of the North Korean Navy salutes Kim Jong-un's daughter, Kim Ju-ae
North Korean Navy Commander Kim Myung-shoe saluted
Born on February 9, 2013, Kim just turned 10 this year and currently lives at the Yongseong residence in Pyongyang, the daughter of North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, and his wife, Ri Seol-ju. The first news of her existence came from American basketball star Dennis. Rodman visited North Korea three times in 2013 and later confirmed that Kim Jong-un had a daughter. Her first public appearance was on November 8, 2022, when a teenage girl accompanied Kim Jong-un to inspect the missile test, confirming her identity in subsequent Labor News reports. It is worth noting that she was called a dear daughter in the first report, a precious daughter in the second time, and a respected daughter in the report after accompanying her visit to the dormitory of the Korean People's Army generals on February 7, 2023. shows her identity, title, status has become higher and higher.
Shake hands after saluting
In a recent event, North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un, his wife Ri Seol-ju and daughter Kim Ju-ae visited the Navy Command on the day of the Navy Festival, and the whole event had the most shots except Kim Jong-un, which shows how much she is liked by her father. In the handshake session, Kim Myung-suk, commander of the Korean People's Army Navy, salutes Kim Cho-ae before shaking hands, a series that indicates the status of the respected daughter. Because in the army, only subordinates salute their superiors, or in the face of respected old-timers. Not long before the visit, the leaders of the United States, Japan, and South Korea met for talks at U.S. President Villa David and announced a number of measures against North Korea, including regular joint military exercises between the three countries. In response, Kim Jong-un called the US-Japan-South Korea summit a gathering of rogue leaders who, thanks to their reckless actions, have become the world's most unstable nuclear war crisis outbreak zone. He asked the Navy to be fully prepared and confident that it could defeat any enemy in extraordinary times. At Kim's request, the Korean People's Army then conducted drills, firing two tactical ballistic missiles to simulate nuclear strike training at South Korean command positions.
Ballistic missile simulation strike Image source: KCNA
For the title and salute of the gold lord's love, we can find the answer from other members of the Kim Il Sung family. According to the recollections of relevant personnel, when he was working in the North Korean embassy in Europe, he met Jang Jin-song, the only daughter of Jang Song-taek and Kim Kyung-hee who lived and studied in Europe, and Kim Il-sung liked this granddaughter very much and personally named her. She was only seventeen or eight years old at the time, but all the embassy members at that time saluted her when they saw her, and they were not called by her first name, but by a comrade general. He said that although he could not understand why a child with no military rank should be called this way, he had heard that she was called that not only at the embassy but also in North Korea. During the study abroad period, Zhang Songze and his wife also chose a bodyguard with extraordinary ability to protect her safety, but it was this decision that made their husband and wife regret for life, because because there are not many people in foreign countries, and this bodyguard provides all the care she needs in life, and Zhang Jinsong falls in love with this bodyguard. However, when the news came back to North Korea, Jang Song-taek and his wife could not accept it in any way and constantly obstructed the contact between the two, eventually leading to Jang Jinsong committing suicide by taking sleeping pills in Paris, France, in 2006.
Image source: KCNA
There is also a photo of the young Kim Jong-un and his mother Ko Ying-hee, who is lovingly and seriously guiding her son's studies, looking very warm. But if you look closely, you will find that Kim Jong-un, who is a few years old at this moment, is already wearing a marshal uniform, and according to the memoirs of Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese who worked as a cook for General Kim Jong-il, everyone around him at that time called the young general Comrade Kim Jong-un, and he called him the little prince. I also remembered a report a few years ago that Kim Jong-un's sister Kim Yo-jung is now the first deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department, and she does not have any military rank, and the rank is not very high, but it is heard that whenever she appears, even if she is the second marshal of the Korean People's Army, the general will stand up and salute to show respect. Civil officials who are higher than her do not need to salute, but they also have to stand up to show their respect. From this, it can be judged that the salute of the commander of the Korean People's Army Navy to the gold lord is a normal phenomenon in North Korea.