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Kim Jong Un hands out Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ as party favor at birthday celebration

North Korean soldiers march in front of flower waving civilians during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.

North Korean soldiers march in front of flower waving civilians during a mass military parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. (AP)

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (AFP/Getty Images)

Heil Kim Jong Un!

That might be the new salute spreading through Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, after the country’s despotic boy leader handed out copies of Adolph Hitler’s jailhouse memoir “Mein Kampf” at his January 8th birthday party.

Hitler’s rambling tome was apparently released as a “hundred-copy book,” meaning that it was printed in extremely limited numbers so that it would only be seen by the highest ranking officials in North Korea’s power structure, according to New Focus International, a new organization dedicated to covering North Korea by talking to defectors and volunteers.