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Kim set to $elf-destruct

North Korea’s bellicose boy dictator yesterday threatened to shut one of his regime’s biggest cash cows in yet another fit of senseless warmongering.

Kim Jong-Un’s minions warned South Koreans to stop pointing out that factories in the collaborative Kaesong Industrial Region have been operating normally despite the “state of war” North Korea sees on the Korean peninsula.

“If the puppet traitor group” — ie, South Korea — “continues to mention the Kaesong industrial zone is being kept operating and damages our dignity, it will be mercilessly shut off and shut down,” the North’s news agency reported.

South Korean companies pay the North about 50 cents per hour for each laborer in the Kaesong complex, a joint economic development between the two countries six miles north of the DMZ.

Kaesong factories each year bring about $2 billion to North Korea’s cash-starved economy.

bsanderson@nypost.com