Posted on 06/19/2013 12:57:24 AM PDT by TexGrill
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un handed out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir "Mein Kampf" to department chiefs of the Workers Party's Central Committee on his birthday on Jan. 8, an anti-regime website said Tuesday.
The book is among a special selection of the world's 100 best classic books according to the tastes of the Kim family, New Focus quoted an informed source as saying. New Focus is run by Jang Jin-song, a North Korean poet who used to work at the Workers Party's United Front Department before defecting to the South.
Hitler's book lays out a deranged program of anti-Semitism and all-engulfing propaganda that became the basis for the short-lived Third Reich.
"Kim Jong-un stressed to top officials the need to pursue a policy of both nuclear and economic development in tandem," the source said. "He instructed them to study the Third Reich and how Hitler reconstructed Germany after its defeat in World War I, and find ways to apply it to the North."
(Excerpt) Read more at english.chosun.com ...
Somehow I don’t think this is a “Know Thine Enemy” move on the part of Baby Kim.
Someone is directing him to build up his bad boy rep because he sure looked like a fat Sumo wrestling baby that sits on his butt and plays video games in a palace with a golden crapper a few years ago. I’m guessing one of his generals.
Someone is directing him to build up his bad boy rep because he sure looked like a fat Sumo wrestling baby that sits on his butt and plays video games in a palace with a golden crapper a few years ago. I’m guessing one of his generals.
If so, his first stop ought to have been at a better barber shop.
Sounds plausible.
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