North Korea has fired back on claims that Kim Jong-Un gave copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his senior governmental officials, calling the accusation a "sheer fabrication."
New Focus International, a news site run by North Korean defectors, ran the first story that was then scooped up by the Washington Post.
On Monday, NFI wrote that Kim Jong-Un gifted Hitler's autobiography to some members of his cabinet for his Jan. 8 birthday. An unnamed North Korean official in China reportedly said that the North Korean leader told them to look closely at the manner in which Hitler rebuilt Germany after its WWI defeat.
The Korean Central News Agency denied the allegations, calling New Focus International "a wicked media made up of human scum," The International Business Times reported.
"The group of such dirty men talked rubbish packaged in false information, a mockery of media whose basic mission is objectivity, impartiality and neutrality, and an intolerable insult to human conscience," North Korea's main media outlet wrote in a statement.
KCNA then went in on the Washington Post, saying that United States media brought 'shame' upon itself.
"The U.S. media professing professional journalism carried the false report written by those rubbish bêtes noires for a few pennies, bringing shame to itself."
The statement also claimed that the people of North Korea have turned their backs on the NFI reporters, saying that "there are daily requests from home folks and kinsmen of those defectors asking to let them kill the human scum with their own hands."
They compared the writers at NFI to a "group of wild dogs in human form."
According to the Wall Street Journal, News Focus International was first implemented by a top propagandist for Kim Jong II who fled from North Korea nine years ago.
The website claims that high-up North Korean officials give them information from inside government walls.
