North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual.
Kim handed out translations of the German dictator’s manifesto to select officials at the time of his birthday in January, reported New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors. The report, sourced to an unnamed North Korean official working in China, was picked up by all major South Korean newspapers on Wednesday.
“Mentioning that Hitler managed to rebuild Germany in a short time following its defeat in WW 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,” the source was quoted as saying. Kim stressed that sports had played a key role in cementing unity and spreading Nazi ideology in Germany, and called for encouraging sports among North Koreans.