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All will be forgiven if Kim nukes Hollywood!

Dave


> Naked girls, caviar and dog stew - Kim Jong-Il lives it up

> By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
> (Filed: 20/07/2003)
> 
> 
> Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea and the most dangerous
> remnant of George Bush's "axis of evil", orders his troupe of female
> dancers to strip for guests and dines on the finest imported foods
> while most of his countrymen starve to death in his famine-plagued
> land.
> 
> In a rare insight into his life of privilege and excess, Kim's former
> executive chef has described how the "Dear Leader" washes down
> exotic sushi, Iranian caviar and gourmet shark fin soup with vintage
> French wines from his 10,000-bottle cellar before treating himself
> to his favourite tipple, Hennessy XO cognac.
> 
> The diminutive dictator with the bouffant hair is also partial to the
> traditional Korean delicacy of dog stew. Yet his desperately impoverished
> people have been reduced to making gruel from wild roots and tree
> bark - and even eating human flesh on sale at farmers' markets, according
> to some recent reports.
> 
> The fascinating revelations about Kim's personal extravagances, culinary
> indulgences and temper tantrums appear in the memoir of Kenji Fujimoto,
> a Japanese chef who became a friend and gambling partner of the North
> Korean leader.
> 
> Mr Fujimoto (a pseudonym) wrote Kim Jong-Il's Chef after fleeing back
> to his homeland in fear of his life in 2001. During his 13 years of service
> in Pyongyang, he travelled the world to purchase mouth-watering treats
> for Kim and his cronies: caviar from Iran and Uzbekistan, melons and
> grapes from China, durian fruit from Malaysia, papaya from Singapore,
> bacon from Denmark and beer from the former Czechoslovakia.
> 
> At the same time, the North's disastrous communist policies - the average
> annual income is just �430 a year - exacerbated by drought, caused a
> famine that claimed two million lives and left large swathes of the country
> almost entirely reliant on World Food Programme supplies. Asked about
> the problems of life in Pyongyang, one diplomat remarked that "obesity
> is not one of them".
> 
> Kim's "Pleasure Group" of female singers and dancers are a staple
> attraction at all-night banquets prepared by dozens of highly-trained
> chefs.
> 
> On one occasion witnessed by Mr Fujimoto, Kim ordered the girls to
> strip naked, then made his guests dance with them, but warned them to
> go no further. "Dancing is okay but you can't touch. If you touch, it's
> theft," the Dear Leader told them. Kim, he writes, specifically forbade
> his underlings to sleep with members of the Pleasure Group.
> 
> Mr Fujimoto later married one of the troupe's entertainers whom he
> first glimpsed singing at one of Kim's late night banquets; the next time
> he saw her, she was boxing other women for the amusement of guests.
> 
> Kim adores toro sushi, the most expensive cut of tuna, and often called
> out to Mr Fujimoto in English for "one more" piece. He became a fanatical
> aficionado of shark fin soup, eating it three times a week.
> 
> In summer, he eats the Korean speciality of dog stew on traditional feast
> days. All his dishes are first carefully tested for poison by food checkers.
> It was common for banquets to start as late as 2am.
> 
> Kim also considers himself a practical joker, summoning Mr Fujimoto
> the day after his wedding to inquire if he had any hair "down there".
> Mr Fujimoto then found that he had been shaved after drinking himself
> into a stupor and passing out.
> 
> "That is what we do at North Korean weddings," Kim told him. There
> are also some weightier revelations in the book, including a telling insight
> into Kim's nuclear ambitions.
> 
> When Kim asked Mr Fujimoto if he thought North Korea should have
> nuclear weapons, the chef replied that - coming from the only country
> that had suffered atomic attack - he felt such armaments were wrong.
> Kim yelled back that North Korea required nuclear weapons for its
> own defence.
> 
> Mr Fujimoto also disclosed that Kim's wife feared he might commit
> suicide after he became depressed following the death of his father,
> Kim Il-Sung, in 1994. The chef, now 55, had been working in Tokyo
> before he was lured away to become Kim's sushi supremo on a salary
> of �3,000 a month plus tips of hundreds of pounds each time he cooked.
> He was rewarded with a Mercedes-Benz, a luxurious home and high-
> quality suits imported from England.
> 
> He once flew to Japan for Kim simply to buy 100 Daifuku rice cakes -
> usually costing about 50p each - from a specialist Tokyo store. He even
> persuaded the Korean dictator to switch his favourite brand of beer from
> Kirin to Asahi Super Dry by telling him it was more popular in Japan.
> 
> Mr Fujimoto initially felt excited and honoured to serve a man he admired,
> but came to fear for his life after witnessing the power of life and death
> that
> Kim held over his underlings.
> 
> Now he lives in secrecy in Japan after escaping North Korea by tempting
> Kim with tales of the gorgeous taste of sea urchins from Japan's far north.
> When he was sent to buy some, he took his chance to disappear.
> 
> Mr Fujimoto gradually realised the horrendous inequalities of life in the
> self-styled "workers' paradise". He wrote: "I know of no country on earth
> with a bigger gap between rich and poor. If you are from a labourer's
> family,
> however clever you are, you will always be a labourer, working with a
> shovel in minus 20 degrees."
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