For months, teachers in North Korea had been telling their pupils that a brilliant young general was waiting in the wings to succeed Kim Jong-il, the country’s dictator.
But few people inside the hermit kingdom actually knew anything about Kim Jong-eun, the third son of the ailing leader who was unveiled on Tuesday as the heir apparent.
That will change now that the Pyongyang propagandists can broadcast a full mythology for the younger Kim, who was appointed a general in the first concrete sign that he is being groomed for the top job. North Korean state media has never before mentioned any of Mr Kim’s three known sons.
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