The latest claims from South Korea’s spy agency have sparked a flurry of headlines declaring Kim Jong Un’s daughter as North Korea’s next leader, but many of these reports have jumped the gun by misrepresenting the agency’s claims.

On Thursday, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) reportedly assessed at a briefing for lawmakers that the North Korean leader’s daughter, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae, has entered a stage of being “internally designated as successor.”

This marked a higher level than the spy agency’s previous descriptions of her being in “successor training,” according to opposition lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun, a member