North Korea Recruiting Young Women To Join
“Pleasure Squad” For Kim Jong-Un
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo recently reported that Kim
Jong-Un became interested in re-forming the troupe while recovering from an
unknown ailment at one of his summer
cottages last year.
“Pleasure squads” have existed in
North Korea since the country’s founding under Kim Il Sung, who was the
grandfather of the present dictator. Government officials were sent out to
procure the prettiest women and girls to be sent to the dictator’s numerous
mansions, where they were expected to be “available upon request.”
Many of the women were singers,
dancers, maids and the like, but those judged particularly beautiful were made
to be concubines of North Korean leaders. Many of those were “retired” from the
squads when they reached their twenties and were paired off with military
officers looking for wives.
The squad used to “perform” for
Kim’s father, Kim Jong-Il, as well, and was disbanded shortly after his death
in December 2011. They were forced to sign a pledge of secrecy in exchange for
money and gifts.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph quoted a
professor at Tokyo’s Waseda University, described as an authority on North
Korean affairs, as saying that Kim believed the women who “entertained” his
father knew too many state secrets.
“After he came to power, Mr. Kim trusted no-one and ordered thorough
investigations into every official in the regime, from the highest to the
lowest,” stated the professor.
But now there will be a new crop of
pleasure providers to entertain the regime. Perhaps the uber-bureacrats will be
warier and less likely to spill state secrets this time around, considering
their reaction to the release of the movie “The Interview” a few months back.
Sadly, in the Hermit Kingdom, where
much of the population is starving, it is probably pretty easy to round up even
the prettiest girls to serve the doughy dictator.
I wonder if Dennis Rodman approves.
****** (Some information used in
this post was obtained from a FoxNews.com article earlier this week)
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