Yang Hyong Sop, a top official in North Korea's ruling party, referred to Kim Jong Un as 'the young general' during an interview with APTN.
He said the nation's people would be honoured to serve him as their leader.
Kim Jong Un would be the third successive generation of his family to lead North Korea, which has a population of 24 million.
His grandfather Kim Il Sung founded the nation in 1948 on a policy of self-reliance called 'juche'.
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Yang said: 'Our people take pride in the fact that they are blessed with great leaders from generation to generation.
'Our people are honoured to serve the great President Kim Il Sung and the great leader Kim Jong Il.
'Now we also have the honour of serving young General Kim Jong Un.'
Yang is a member of the political bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, - the equivalent of the country's parliament.
Kim Jong Un had been virtually unknown outside the secretive nation before he made his public debut last week, when he was promoted to four-star general and vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's central military commission.
That backed up analyst speculation that he had been chosen to succeed his ailing father as eventual ruler of the impoverished authoritarian regime, which pursues active nuclear and missile programs.
The world got its first real glimpse of Kim Jong Un last week when his photo was published in state media and he was shown on television at a Workers' Party convention, the country's most significant political gathering in 30 years.
Yang's comments are the first public confirmation that Kim Jong Un will eventually take over as leader.
Kim Jong Il took over as leader after his father died in 1994 in what was the communist world's first hereditary transfer of power.
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