A father from Utah County in Utah has expressed outrage after a teacher compared his sixth-grade son to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in front of the class. What happened: The incident occurred at Lake Mountain Middle School in Saratoga Springs, Utah, on Oct. 24 when the middle school teacher displayed a picture of Kim Jong-un and asked the class if the North Korean dictator looked similar to the 12-year-old boy, the father, who wished to remain anonymous, told KUTV. Key details: Speaking to ABC4, the father, who moved to the U.S. from Japan to study at college, noted that the boy only told him about what happened a week later.