The song was unveiled in April during a nighttime concert to mark the completion of a housing project in the capital Pyongyang, according to North Korean state-run Korean Central News Agency.
“This isn’t Gen Z suddenly declaring allegiance for the regime,” said Alexandra Leonzini, a Cambridge University scholar conducting research on North Korean music.
“They’re laughing at the regime not with the regime.”Nonetheless, South Korean security officials came down on the parodies.
The music video of "Friendly Father" went viral on TikTok.
North and South Korea have been cut off from each other since the Korean War in 1953 ended with an armistice.
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