“The bookstore is that way.”

The North Korean dissident website New Focus International carried an interesting story on Monday. According to insiders, Kim Jong-un is getting into Hitler. In fact, the tubby tyrant digs the Nazi dictator so much that he’s started gifting copies of “Mein Kampf” to his inner circle. Having emulated Stalin for decades, it’s time for the regime to embrace a new villain.

Well, apparently Kim is willing to overlook all that because he is impressed by Hitler’s “success” in the interwar period. Gazing at the wreckage of his country, Kim is looking for tips:

“Kim Jong-un gave a lecture to high-ranking officials. … Mentioning that Hitler managed to rebuild Germany in a short time following its defeat in WWI, Kim Jong-un issued an order for the Third Reich to be studied in depth and asked that practical applications be drawn from it.”

That it all ended in fire and blood and millions dead does not seem to worry Kim. Meanwhile I wonder whether he has actually read “Mein Kampf.” The author of the New Focus piece repeats rumors that Kim “made a close study of Hitler while at school in Switzerland,” but as someone who has read, or rather, attempted to read “Mein Kampf” I…

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