North Korean officials wore pins with a portrait of leader Kim Jong Un in public for the first time in pictures released by state media on June 30, the latest step in the development of a cult of personality about the leader.In the photographs released by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, the officials, speaking on the second day of a key meeting on Saturday (June 29), were seen wearing the party logo pin on the right lapel and, on the left chest, the pin with Kim’s face against a flag-shaped red background.The 10th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which reviews the party’s performance for the first half of the year, began on Friday (June 28), KCNA said.In an apparent push to solidify Kim Jong Un’s status as a leader equal to his father and grandfather, North Korean media published photographs showing his portrait hanging prominently next to those of Kim Jong Il and national patriarch Kim Il Sung earlier this year.