North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un secretly sired a son who’s poised to extend his clan’s iron-fisted rule over the rogue nation, according to a report Sunday.
Kim’s eldest child is a boy believed to have been born in 2010, the , citing claims by South Korean intelligence.
The child’s gender is crucial to the patriarchal bloodline established by Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of the hermit kingdom and creator of its ideology of “juche,” or self-reliance.
The political philosophy gave rise to the cult of personality under which Kim Il Sung assumed a god-like status and remains venerated by brainwashed North Koreans as their “great leader” and “eternal president,” despite his death in 1994.
In addition to the revelation regarding the younger Kim’s son, the Sunday Times said South Korean spies last week told lawmakers that the baby-faced tyrant’s wife, Ri Sol-ju, gave birth to their third child, a girl, in February.
The report was published hours before North Korea shocked the world with claims that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, prompting President Trump to say, “We’ll see,” when asked if the US would mount a military attack in retaliation.