If you're a man living in North Korea and you share a name with Kim-Jong un you'd best change your damn name or else.
North Korea has ordered people who share the name of leader Kim Jong Un to change their names, South Korea's state-run KBS television reported on Wednesday.
North Korea has ordered people who share the name of leader Kim Jong Un to change their names, South Korea's state-run KBS television reported on Wednesday.
North Korea imposed similar bans on the use of the names
of its two former leaders, Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather,
Kim Il Sung, as part of propaganda drives to build cults of personality
around them.
Kim Jong Un's name is not allowed for newborns and people who share the
name must not just stop using it but must change it on their birth
certificates and residence registrations, KBS reported, citing an
official North Korean directive.
South Korea's
Unification Ministry, which handles ties with the North, could not
immediately confirm the report but said it was plausible.
"The ban is highly possible since North Korea had the same
policy in the era of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung," a ministry official
said.
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