{"id":237944,"date":"2026-02-25T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=237944"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:16:12","slug":"north-korean-leader-appoints-13-year-old-daughter-to-head-countrys-missile-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/237944\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader appoints 13-year-old daughter to head country\u2019s missile program"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appointed his 13-year-old daughter, Kim Ju-hae, to oversee the country&rsquo;s missile program&#8228;<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chosun.com\/english\/north-korea-en\/2026\/02\/23\/IDNKD6G3QBBFJHS42BA2WCWVRY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chosun Daily<\/a>, citing government sources, reports that the underage girl will supervise the nation&rsquo;s military development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, the position is held by Gen&#8228; Jang Chang-ha, but Kim Ju-hae is said to receive reports from military personnel and issue directives.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Yonhap News Agency reported that South Korean intelligence believes Kim Jong Un intends to designate his daughter as his successor.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appointed his 13-year-old daughter, Kim Ju-hae, to oversee the country&rsquo;s missile program&#8228; South Korea&rsquo;s The Chosun Daily, citing government sources, reports that the underage girl will supervise the nation&rsquo;s military development projects. Officially, the position is held by Gen&#8228; Jang Chang-ha, but Kim Ju-hae is said to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":237779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237945,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237944\/revisions\/237945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}