Nineteen Private Train Stations?

The Daily Telegraph looks at Kim Jong Il’s private train and stations.

Feel free to express your outrage about … like you know, American sanctions that starve North Korean babies and, like, stuff:

The traveling comforts of North Korea’s ailing Stalinist dictator come as a UN report estimated that at least 8m people are facing dire food shortages as a result of the militaristic regime’s “callous” disregard for ordinary citizens.

Personally, I wouldn’t go to print with a story with that claims Kim Jong Il has exactly 19 private train stations without assuring myself that Curtis Melvin hasn’t found six more somewhere.