Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for a couple of periods in the past. Others confidently assume that he might be ill. Due to this, there are two reported candidates that are capable of succeeding him.

Kim Jong Un’s 65 year-old unlce and his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong who seems to be in her 30’s. It is said that Kim Yo Jong is most likely to be a candidate to step in if his brother is gravely ill, incapacitated or dies. Some experts say that this could possibly put an end the family’s dynastic rule.

“Among the North’s power elite, Kim Yo Jong has the highest chance to inherit power and I think that possibility is more than 90 percent,” Cheon Seong-Chang, an analyst in South Korea said at the private Sejong Institute.

“North Korea is like a dynasty, and we can view the Paektu descent as royal blood so it’s unlikely for anyone to raise any issue over Kim Yo Jong taking power.” He added.

Kim Yo Jong has frequently appeared together with her brother at public activities. She is in charged pf North Korea’s propaganda affairs and was made an alternate member of the powerful Politburo.

She accompanied his brother on his high-stakes summits with President Donald Trump and other world leaders. Those summits led many outsiders to believe she’s essentially North Korea’s No. 2 official.

“I think the basic assumption would be that maybe it would be someone in the family” US national security adviser Robert O’Brien told the reporters. “But again, it’s too early to talk about that because we just don’t know, you know, what condition Chairman Kim is in and we’ll have to see how it plays out.”