He wanted to breed giant rabbits

Kim learns in 2006 that a man in Germany raises enormous bunnies. Huge, enormous bunnies like canine-sized rabbits. The bunnies quickly become Kim's obsession, and he believes they are the solution to his nation's famine issues.

Kim contacts Berlin's Karl Szmolinsky, the leading gigantic rabbit breeder in the world, and requests that Szmolinsky establish a huge rabbit breeding farm in Pyongyang. Kim is convinced that the meat these rabbits produce will put an end to his people's hunger. Szmolinsky informs Kim that this is, quite simply, the worst idea imaginable. Due to their enormous appetites and low meat production, these rabbits consume far more carrots, potatoes, and other vegetables than that. If anything, raising huge bunnies would worsen North Korea's food shortage.

Naturally, Kim pays for the 12 rabbits, which run around $115 each. He informs Szmolinsky that the rabbits will be kept at a petting zoo in Pyongyang and that he will be flown in to assist in setting up a breeding farm in a few months.

He gave North Korea a supply of 12 enormous rabbits to get things moving but was shocked to learn that Kim had eaten them at his birthday celebration that year.