North Korea refers to Kim Jong-un's daughter by term reserved for 'top leaders': analysts

Analysts said it was the first time North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's daughter Ju Ae had been described as such by the North. - PHOTO: AFP

SEOUL (AFP): North Korean state media on Saturday referred to leader Kim Jong Un's teenage daughter as a "great person of guidance", employing a term usually reserved for senior leaders and hinting at her status as a potential successor, analysts said.

Both the English- and Korean-language versions of an official Korean Central News Agency report on Kim and his daughter's visit to a greenhouse farm used the plural form of the honorific, suggesting it applied to both of them.