Dressed for succession: What Kim Ju Ae's outfits tell us about North Korea
Dressed for succession: What Kim Ju Ae's outfits tell us about North Korea
Kim Ju Ae: What Kim Jong Un's daughter's fashion tells us about North Korea
Kim Ju Ae's evolving fashion is one of the signs that she is being groomed as North Korea's next leader.
In 2020, North Korea enacted the Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act, blocking "external culture".
But in 2023, the state-run Korean Central News Agency released a video of Ju Ae again strolling alongside her father in front of an intercontinental ballistic missile, this time wearing a black padded jacket later identified as a $1,900 (£1,405) purchase from luxury French fashion house Christian Dior.
The following year, Ju Ae wore a partially see-through blouse - revealing her arms - to the completion ceremony for a residential area of the capital, Pyongyang.
A video lecture was then released as a directive to ordinary citizens, warning that such hairstyles and outfits could not be worn by them as they were "anti-socialist and non-socialist phenomena that blur the image of the socialist system and eat away at the regime - targets that must be eradicated", a local source told Radio Free Asia.