Letter of the Day (April 17): Nazi Germany, North Korea

April 17, 2013 at 1:39AM
North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on April 12, 2013.
North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on April 12, 2013. (Susan Hogan — AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The April 13 photo of the North Korean children being inducted into the Korean Children's Union reminded me so much of the photos of the Hitler Youth of the 1930s and '40s. So sad.

Victor Douglas, Minneapolis
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