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A North Korean soldier looks across the Yalu river near Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong in April 2017. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Kim Jong Un's daughter may accompany her father to missile launches, but that doesn't mean she is North Korea's future leader, says a man whose job was once to protect the hereditary regime. Kim Hyun-woo used to work for North Korea's top intelligence agency. He defected to South Korea in 2014 and is now on his first-ever visit to the United States. In an exclusive interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, he shared his insights into why he fled the country, possible succession scenarios in the regime, and diplomacy with the U.S. amid mounting tension over North Korea's nuclear capabilities. During his 17 years at the Ministry of State Security – a career possible only for elite North Koreans with credible social and familial background – Kim served in various divisions, analyzing intelligence data and at one point working at an overseas branch. The ministry's job, Kim explained, is to "track down, identify and catch what the regime views as hostile agents or hostile activities within the state." And in North Korea, acts as seemingly mundane as watching a South Korean drama can be considered "hostile" and lead to severe consequences like several years in prison, according to This undated handout picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency in April 2022 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

• v • t • e The president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( 조선민주주의인민공화국 주석) was the head of state of Following his death in 1994, the position remained vacant until 1998 and his son Election [ ] The The constitution did not set a limit on how many times the president may be re-elected, nor did it define a line of succession, or even who would be Powers [ ] The 1972 Constitution stated that the president was the head of state who represents the state's power. The president was the head of the Central People's Committee which was primarily responsible for setting North Korea's domestic policies. The president had the power to control the country's armed forces as the supreme commander of the armed forces and the chairman of the National Defense Commission. The president had the power to nominate the The president promulgated the ordinances of the Supreme People's Assembly, the decrees of the Central People's Committee and the decisions of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. The president had the power to ratify or nullify international treaties. The president had the power to exercise the power of special pardon. The 1992 amendment of the 1972 Constitution introduced changes to the powers of the president. The amendment no longer made it possible for the president to automatically become the chairman of the National Defense Commission, who was tasked with the control of the country's armed forces. The president's power to conclude internatio...

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The younger Kim’s rule over North Korea after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, on Dec. 17, 2011, began both with some optimism that his age and education in the West could lead to reforms, and rattled nerves as to what might happen if he failed to hold on to power. As he marks a decade at the helm this week, both the expectations for change and skepticism of his grip on power are long since gone. North Korea’s millennial autocrat has surpassed his father and grandfather in nuclear ambition, economic experimentation and bold diplomacy, solidifying his rule more swiftly and securely than most inside and outside the country could have imagined. Kim has not only purged hundreds who could pose a threat to his power — including both his uncle and the half brother, Kim Jong Nam, who questioned him — but also dramatically increased the country’s nuclear and cybercapabilities and rubbed shoulders with world leaders, including the president of the United States. (Korean Central News Agency ) Cho Chung Hui, who worked as a local bureaucrat in North Korea before he fled the country in 2011, said when Kim was introduced as heir apparent in the months before his father’s death, he and other North Koreans reacted with “half expectation, half concern.” Watching Kim choose to invest on building up his nuclear arsenal and reject outside offers of vaccines during COVID-19, though, it’s become clear that ultimately, the “Great Successor” was just as focused on dynastic survival as the Ki...