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North Korea Compares President Trump to Adolf Hitler

KIM JONG GODWIN

Called “America First” policy “Nazism in the 21st century.”

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North Korean state media on Tuesday called President Trump’s “America First” policies “Nazism in the 21st century” and compared the commander-in-chief to Adolf Hitler. The Korean Central News Agency wrote that Trump’s policy is “the American version of Nazism far surpassing the fascism in the last century in its ferocious, brutal and chauvinistic nature.” The remarks will likely be interpreted in some quarters as a reflection of the reclusive nation’s hardening line on the 45th president of the United States, just six months into his tenure. Last month, Trump said in an interview that he would be “honored” to meet with the nation’s leader, Kim Jong Un, “under the right circumstances.”

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