Chilling images from inside the mass indoctrination ceremonies where communist 'cult' leaders brainwash North Korea's children

Youngsters aged seven to 13 inducted into Korean Children's Union, a group likened to the Hitler Youth

Organisation pledges allegiance to warmongering dictator Kim Jong Un whom they refer to as 'father'



Despot leader has previously described members as the 'future masters of a most powerful country'

Ceremony held in a stadium in Pyongyang as North Korea presses ahead with ballistic missile launch


They are barely seven years old, but these glum-looking children are already being drafted into a tyrannical regime hellbent on waging nuclear war with the world.

Standing in arrow-straight rows, their faces are hardly the picture of happiness as they are forced to pledge their allegiance to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and call him 'father'.

Troubling images of them being inducted into an organisation likened to the Hitler Youth emerged as their despot leader pressed ahead with plans to launch a ballistic missile, potentially with nuclear capabilities.

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First steps into tyranny: North Korean children stand in line while officers tie bandanas around their necks at a ceremony to induct them into the Korean Children's Union Rogue regime: Thousands gathered at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to watch the youngsters be sworn in

Thousands gathered at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang today to watch the youngsters be sworn into the Korean Children's Union, a political organisation for children aged seven to 13, in which they pledge to build up strength to defend their nation.

Retired military officers helped them tie on red scarves to help complete the ritual.

At a rally last year, members of the KCU wept and jostled to hold Kim Jong Un's hand in what was likened to a welcome given to teen pop idol Justin Bieber than a political leader.