Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality push
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North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), held in February 2026, sidelining the ideological legacies of his predecessors and generating widespread confusion among ordinary North Koreans, a source inside the country told Daily NK on Monday.
Political education sessions held at institutions, enterprises, and neighborhood watch units across the country have increasingly centered on what authorities are calling “Kim Jong Un ideology” and his leadership achievements, according to a source in North Hamgyong province. Lecture materials and study guides distributed after the Ninth Party Congress have shifted away from the teachings and instructions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, instead presenting Kim Jong Un’s directives and vision as the sole standard of the current revolutionary era.
Instructors at political sessions have reportedly told participants that Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il “remain only as historical symbols of their respective eras, enshrined alongside the immortality towers. All current policy must be grounded strictly in the instructions of Marshal Kim Jong Un.” The shift has left a growing number of North Koreans disoriented.
“Since the Ninth Party Congress, a storm of Kim Jong Un-ism has been blowing,” the source said. “The teachings of the former leaders are being pushed aside and forgotten. The sense of mission demanding absolute obedience to the Marshal’s orders is being hammered home, and it’s causing enormous confusion among the people.”
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