North Korea’s state youth league changed its name last month to the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, a new rebranding that substitutes references to Kim family leaders with socialism and patriotism. Some analysts understood this change as a curtail on the personality cult of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, possibly to direct more focus to Kim Jong Un. That he recently promoted himself to general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea — a move described as “grave robbing” as it took this eternal title from his father, Kim Jong Il — also fit this impression. But there is