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SEOUL - For the first time since leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, a South Korean research institute said, amid other steps the country is taking to solidify his rule.
"Kim Jong Un's choice to host a loyalty oath ceremony on his 40th birthday, as he begins his 13th year in power, signals a shift towards political assertiveness, departing from his predecessors' approach," SAND said in an analysis. The Kim family dynasty has ruled the country since its founding after World War Two, strengthening their grip on power by building cults of personality around them.
"We should view this as part of North Korea’s effort to further bolster Kim Jong Un's leadership propaganda campaign," Rachel Minyoung Lee of the Washington-based 38 North programme, said of the decision to drop"Day of the Sun."
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