New order from North Korean dictator Kim Jong, youth will have to address him as ‘father’

Young people in North Korea will now have to call Kim Jong Un “Respected Father.” The move has caused a lot of resentment among the youth who do not consider him worthy enough to hold an honorific.

According to Radio Free Asia, the 38-year-old leader seems to be legitimizing his authority like his father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung. Both his father and grandfather have been referred to as “Respected Father.”

A resident of the north-eastern province of North Hamgyong told RFA, “Until now, the authorities have been saying [in the media] that the hearts of the people admire and obey the general secretary … like they follow and obey their own fathers.”

According to the sources, close to Kim Jong Un, “ From educational lecture of this month, young people between the ages of 14 and 35 now will have to call 38 years Kim Jong Un their father. Many people do not feel it proper to call a 38 year old person a ‘Father’.

Many think that he is still too young and inexperienced compared to his predecessors, which in turn makes the title inappropriate. North Korea’s founder and Kim’s grandfather Kim Jong II Sung began using the title in 1976 when he was 55 years old. The youngest North Koreans, however, referred to him as “grandfather.”

The media praises Kim Jong Un as an outstanding and sophisticated leader, a fearless patriot who spreads the dignity and power of [our country] to the world,’ and now we are to call him “Father.”