News from North Korea: South Korea’s mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper tells us yesterday:

“The youngest son of North Korea’s authoritarian leader has been given the title of “Brilliant Comrade,” ….. a sign the communist regime is preparing to name him as successor to the ailing Kim Jong Il.

And you thought that Obama had the title sewn up already. No, he’s just TheOne.

“The report came shortly before the U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions Friday against North Korea for its recent nuclear test.

“U.S. and South Korean intelligence authorities disclosed during a meeting this week that 26-year-old Kim Jong Un is now being referred to in the secretive regime as “Yongmyong-han Dongji,” which translates roughly as “Brilliant Comrade”

Because “Special Master” was already taken. And yes, this will make you chuckle:

“Grandiose titles are part of a tradition to stimulate public support in a nation where the media is tightly controlled and little information about the inner workings of the government is available. The leader is given credit for most national projects. The state media carry endless flattering reports about Kim, repeatedly referring to him with his various titles of which “Dear Leader” is the most prominent.”

To paraphrase Charles Emmerson Winchester from the old MASH series, “being named Brilliant Comrade in North Korea is like being named the finest ballerina in Galveston.”

Henceforth you will refer to your host as His Magnificence The Grand, Most Distinguished And Enlightened All Seeing And Knowing Eye, Master Of All.

You can go with HMTGMDAEASEMOA for short but damned if I’m being sneered at by a petty despot’s youngest kid with a shiny new business card – even if he does have a nuclear bomb in his bedroom.

Hat/Tip Michelle Malkin and elsewhere.