Kim Jong Un gives 'Mein Kampf' as birthday present

[steve2470]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/18/north-korea-mein-kampf/2434169/

NEWSER -- On his birthday this year, Kim Jong Un reportedly gave every child in North Korea candy, according to CNBC. So what did he get his top officials? Copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf, the Washington Post reports.

The gift was part of a larger effort by Kim to encourage military leaders to study Germany's post-WWI reconstruction, and follow rumors that Kim carefully studied Hitler while attending school in Switzerland.

"Mentioning that Hitler managed to rebuild Germany in a short time following its defeat in World War I, Kim Jong Un issued an order for the Third Reich to be studied in depth and asked that practical applications be drawn from it," a North Korean source told New Focus International.

As the Post points out, his leaders are unlikely to pick up many concrete lessons from the famously rambling tome. (Though the source tells New Focus that Kim has been vocal about what he sees as one lesson: that sports were key to Germany's unity.) Still, it notes, there are some parallels between the two countries.

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WTH......so he's an anti-Semite also ?

[DetlefK]

1. Prepare for a lawsuit: The rights to "Mein Kampf" are held by the state of Bavaria.

And they don't allow new issues to be printed.

[backscatter712]

2. I actually tried reading that book. Only got a chapter in before I gave up.

On top of being pure fucking evil, Hitler was a terrible writer. It was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness rant, with bad grammar that the translators had difficulty with, that just rambled on and on.

[NightWatcher]

3. Is Kim an angry 15 year old? How soon till he wears a Che Guevara tshirt

Or will he dabble in goth or Ayn Rand for a bit first?

[arely staircase]

4. maybe he'll take snowden in

nt

[onehandle]

5. This little punk can't eat a drone soon enough. nt