N Korea forbids people from using same name as leader

Why would any sane parent want to name their child after an incipient megalomaniac anyway? Sort of like naming your son Osama Bin Laden or your daughter Lizzy Borden, ne?

I feel genuine sorrow for the North Korean people. And that's not even thinking about the gulags. What a terrible place to be born and raised.

When this regime is overthrown, I sincerely hope those responsible are treated the same way as the citizens.

My mother told me I was named after Joseph Stalin till my eighteenth birthday.

Then suddenly it was a lie.

Didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Sort of like naming your son Osama Bin Laden or your daughter Lizzy Borden, ne?

Lots of babies were named Osama after 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan. In one hospital in Nigeria, 70% of babies born (I'm assuming they mean baby boys, but who knows....) were being given the name Osama in 2002.

In the same year, 20 babies in the UK were given the name Osama.

Lizzie/Elizabeth has always been a popular name.

WEsterners do a fair bit of revering too, even when they are not encouraged to do so by the state. Many European children have been named after kings and queens, princes and princesses as are seven American states, and Richard Nixon and three of his brothers. My mother wanted to name me Rupert, after the bear, but eventually chose a Christian name, Timothy or Timorous of God, or God-fearing.

I said 'sane parent'. Not a parent who glorifies a terrorist mass murderer or axe-wielding psychopath. Sort of like naming your avatar after someone who married their 11 year old brother, ne?

How about Kim Il Sung Il Jong Il Un?

Or would that be 'ilin'' too much?

What about Kim Dennis Rodman? Kim Chubby Chops?

"In North Korea, there can be only one Kim Jong Un".

WOW!!! What is this, a North Korean version of 'Highlander'? Seriously?

"In North Korea, there can be only one Kim Jong Un".

A good first step. Next, let's expand this internationally, and finally reduce the number to zero.

I think everyone should change their name to Kim Jong Un just to annoy him.

The winner of the next "ugly dog" contest should be named Kim Jong Un. That way we can all say "if my dog had a face like Kim Jong Un's I'd shave it's butt and make it walk backwards!"

Who died and made Kim Jong Un God? Oh that's right, his daddy.

Shinhiyata: "I said 'sane parent'. Not a parent who glorifies a terrorist mass murderer or axe-wielding psychopath."

Well, that depends if your view of 'sanity' is objective or not. Granted, a lot of people who give their children stupid names, like those who give their children terrible Kanji (until a law was made, fortunately, to prevent it), or serial killer, then yes, it's insulting and questionable to say the least. But for some who name their children Osama, for example, they don't see him as a terrorist but as a 'freedom fighter'; especially those who have suffered casualties in the family or some other heinous crime committed by, say, US soldiers. Take, for example, if some proud South Koreans named their child Ahn, after the man who killed Hirobumi Ito. Japanese consider him a terrorist; the rest of the world does not, given what Japan was doing and was about to do at time in South Korea and elsewhere. And did you know the most common boys name, in the whole wide world, is Mohammed? Regardless of the fact that parents name their children as such after the Prophet Mohammed, there are those who hear the name and would automatically think 'terrorist' because of subject beliefs. I'm only saying that what one person calls insane others might not.

As to not being able to name their kids after their ultimate leader in North Korea, who cares? If they are so utterly desirous to do so they can slightly alter one syllable or a Hanja character with the same or similar sound.

In North Korea, there can be only one Kim Jong Un.

And so be it. After him no more of the same.

One Kim Jong Un is certainly more than enough.

@smithinjapan

Yes, yes, Osama was a freedom fighter. We all see how your mind has been warped by your anti-Americanism.

The regime is trying to create a cult of personality around the Kim family. One Kim Jong Un is one too many.

Pharoah has spoken

That kid is crazy.

Are you my daddy? He is afraid of the young kids asking? LOL

This is N koream new regulation about naming. You can name his name to your children if you admire him and do not live in N Korea. It is not the same name if you have a family name different than Kim.

Japan had prohibited people to name Poke Mon and Pika Chu quite a while ago. I wonder if it is still the law.

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@Elizabeth HeathDEC. 03, 2014 - 09:31PM JST I think everyone should change their name to Kim Jong Un just to annoy him.

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Are you suggestiing all N K people to be in jail? They might become dog foods like his uncke.

Kim is his last name. This new law affects N K families with Kim only?

True story... France used to have a list of officially-approved names which parents had to choose from.

The year the rule was scrapped (late eighties, I think) the most popular boy's name was ... Kevin?

For the love of God, why??

@toshiko Everyone, as in not North Koreans obviously. Whoosh!

N Korea forbids people from using same name as leader

It's good to be the king....

And South Korea's President Park expects this guy to handover his power to her so she can reunify Korea?