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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has selected his daughter as his heir, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

Kim Ju Ae - who is believed to be 13 - has in recent months been pictured beside her father in high-profile events like a visit to Beijing in September, her first known trip abroad.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was 80% migrants? Also, except for the bit about permission to leave country (crazy, imo) that sounds like a normal work permit in many conventionally democratic countries, where employer also uses it's power over migrant workers. It might be worse in practice, of course, that depends on courts

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, mistook it originally for the Qatar figure, which has a similar system and 88% migrant population.

Also, except for the bit about permission to leave country (crazy, imo) that sounds like a normal work permit in many conventionally democratic countries, where employer also uses it's power over migrant workers

When immigrant workers aren't given access to basic rights like healthcare, it's an apartheid state. You could read about it instead of speculating about the extreme levels of exploitation of those poor people.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

My point was more along the lines of specific democracies doing almost as bad, and being a counterexample for extracting political system information from unrelated data