Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? Survivor of Kim Jong Il’s “Pleasure Squad” Talks
I’m not sure what pains me more — the thought of all the tawdry traffic this post will bring in, or knowing that a part of me actually wants the traffic.
According to the account by Mi Hyang, a former member of one of Mr Kim’s “pleasure squads” ““ groups of attractive young women enlisted to provide entertainment and sexual services ““ the leader could be sentimental when drunk, and even shed tears.
His favourite delicacy contains the reproductive organ of sharks.
Sharks … with frikkin’ laser beams attached to their heads!
He has a number of private residences around the capital city, some equipped with a 50-metre-long underground swimming pool. Mr Kim is known to be irascible towards his aides, but is surprisingly caring towards his private female attendants….
Caring right up to the point he signs the warrant to ship your entire family to Camp 22.
Mi Hyang, who goes only by her first name, served in one of Mr Kim’s pleasure squads for two years before fleeing to the South and defecting after her family was accused of treason, for reasons not yet revealed. She now resides in Seoul. The fate of her family has not been publicly disclosed.
Also, we learn that a lifetime of indoctrination and deification is still no substitute for good dental hygiene:
“When I first met Kim Jong Il, he looked so normal “¦ like a next-door neighbour. He has many brown spots on his face. His teeth were yellowish. My previous fancy about the great leader was shattered at that very moment,” Mi Hyang says in the interview. “But he was very considerate towards me.
… said “Mi Hyang,” who used only her first name to prevent Kim Jong Il sending hit squads to track her and her family down and kill them. Hey, he sounds like a gentle soul … a great catch! Hat tip: Mike Madden.
My good friends at NE Asia Matters are in the process of translating the interview, and released the first installment.
http://asiamatters.blogspot.com/2010/02/interviews-with-former-member-of-kim.html
Thanks Mike.
This is some interesting stuff.
This woman needs some serious protection as I’m sure she’s in NK agents’s sights.
If seeing Kim Jong Il is all it takes to convince North Koreans he isn’t a god, then all we need to do is parade his dead body, sans makeup, throughout the country. Perhaps we can dig up Kim Il Sung’s body as well, in all its moldering glory.
Photoshop!
(Well, somebody had to do it.)
OMG. I am feeling all teenagery and want to repost this pic on my Facebook page. But it’s kinda gross. And sad. Very sad.
I read through the Asia Matters blog Mr. Madden URL’d in his comment above. In that asiamatters.blogspot.com page, towards the top of part five, interviewer Joo asked “Mi Hyang†whether KJI could have asked (ordered) five of the women to strip and dance w/other officials. In her answer, “Mi Hyang†described KJI’s behavior when drunk: he ordered an official sent to jail, and when he sobered up, KJI ordered the official freed. Then . . . what if KJI gets drunk, and an aide tells him about some “mean†foreign policy decision SK, USA, PRC, or Japan, made re: NK? Or what if KJI is drunk, hanging out with someone else, anyone else, and conversation turns, or he suddenly starts thinking about, his SK/USA/PRC/Japanese “friends� If he gets pissed off enough, what would prevent him from ordering, say, an artillery attack on Seoul? Or, assuming he lasts ten years,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/04/nuclear-missile-threats-to-us-mount/
launching his nukes at the US? Tokyo? Vladivostok? Beijing? KJI is “godâ€, of course, so . . . the answer is nothing. And yet so far, NK only picks local/tactical fights. Based on this, it seems to me that some institutional “circuit breaker†restrains NK/KJI, and that much as the PRC denies it, the PRC somehow handles it because the PRC has the closest ties to NK. But this might mean that the NK military answers directly to the PRC, which is also crazy. Riddle/mystery/enigma . . .
That image has been circulating among Chinese forums for years along with others caricaturing Dear Leader. Were you saving it for the right post, Joshua?
The alias she’s using is the nickname given to her by Kim Jong Il? Isn’t that a dead giveaway?
Mike, thanks for the link.