Dear Leader

English Alternative forms en dear leader Etymology en ko 친애하는 지도자 dear leader. Proper noun Dear Leader A title adopted by Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. w:Evan Osnos Kim Jong-il is Dead https://web.archive.org/web/20210730150602/https://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/kim-jong-il-is-dead 18 December 2011 Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s so-called Dear Leader, did not survive the year that opened with the Arab Spring. w:Choe Sang-Hun Following Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un Gets Title From University: Dr. Leader https://web.archive.org/web/20230408185111/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/world/asia/following-dear-leader-kim-jong-un-gets-title-from-university-dr-leader.html 25 October 2013 North Korea has long been known for its love of titles for its leaders. Mr. Kim's grandfather, the nation's founder, was known as the Great Leader; his son, the Dear Leader. The country seems not yet to have decided on the same kind of moniker for Mr. Kim — settling for workaday titles like marshal of the military. w:Anna Fifield Lee [pseudonym] North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150117125706/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html 17 January 2015 16 January 2015 "The teachers would say: 'Do you know where the milk came from? It came from the Dear Leader. Because of his love and consideration, we are drinking milk today,' " said Lee, looking every bit a South Korean with her dyed hair and trendy sweater. en Q22686 en by extension US politics derogatory en Q22686, seen as engendering unthinking subservience among his followers. en Thesaurus:Donald Trump Paul Krugman Paul Krugman With All Due Disrespect https://web.archive.org/web/20230213155118/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/with-all-due-disrespect.html 16 January 2017 But patriotism means standing up for your country's values, not pledging personal allegiance to Dear Leader. en Terry H. Schwadron Trump gums up the transition works w:Salon.com https://web.archive.org/web/20230505062638/https://www.salon.com/2020/11/14/trump-gums-up-the-transition-works_partner/ 14 November 2020 Even as Trump commands a dwindling number of Republicans willing to say the election remains unsettled, his administration is stuck trying to carry out Dear Leader's wishes. Lloyd Green Trump, modern Nero, watched the Capitol sacked from a White House dining room https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041057/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/21/trump-modern-nero-watched-us-capitol-sacked-white-house-dining-room 22 July 2022 Also on Tuesday, Arizona Republicans censured Rusty Bowers, a Republican and leader in the state's legislature, after he had testified last month before the committee and denied that Trump won Arizona. Fealty to "Dear Leader" remains a tribal litmus test. Noun Dear Leader en politics derogatory An authoritarian leader who demands unquestioning loyalty. en w:Tim Bale Jezza's Bezzas: Labour's New Members w:The Huffington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230710030948/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tim-bale/jeremy-corbyn-labour-membership_b_10713634.html 28 June 2016 These people, then, are Jezza's bezzas - his praetorian guard, if you like. And - surely rather alarmingly if you are one of those Labour MPs who isn't content to hold your tongue - they seem open to using the prospect of deselection to ensure that there is a price to pay for badmouthing the dear leader. w:Terry Glavin Terry Glavin: Trump and Trudeau, two entitled one-percenters who might get along much better than you think https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-trump-and-trudeau-two-entitled-one-percenters-who-might-get-along-much-better-than-you-think https://archive.ph/DeIic 1 September 2023 23 November 2016 Like Trump, Trudeau is less a leader than a mascot. Like Trump's following, Trudeau's following sometimes comes off like a Dear Leader cult. Like Trump, Trudeau routinely elicits in his political enemies an hysterical incoherence. As with Trump, it is not known whether Trudeau has ever met a dictator he didn't like. Mark Moore Twitter suspends professor over posts mocking China's Xi Jinping https://web.archive.org/web/20220530233118/https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/twitter-suspends-professor-over-posts-mocking-chinas-xi-jinping/ 7 July 2021 On Sunday, Brady said, Twitter temporarily suspended her account, to which she commented: "Seems one must never make fun of the Dear Leader." en Dave Schwartz Some suggestions for renaming Doug Ford's silly bills w:Toronto Star https://web.archive.org/web/20221126170352/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/11/20/some-suggestions-for-renaming-doug-fords-silly-bills.html Toronto, O.N. w:Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. 20 November 2022 0319-0781 1081127642 In fairness to MPs and MPPs of all political parties, it should be noted that blind servitude to the Dear Leader of the day is the price of career advancement in politics. en Donald Trump North Korea Juche