Kim Jong-il's appetites are ingredients of book
Sure, his countrymen many be reduced to eating grass for sustenance, but Kim Jong-il sure seems to be having fun.
Kim Jong-il, the secretive head of North Korea's Stalinist regime, has a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, favors Mazda RX-7s and tuna sushi, and once sent his wife and children on an unannounced vacation to Tokyo Disneyland, according to the man who served as his personal chef for more than a decade....
In one of the book's racier scenes, Mr. Fujimoto describes a banquet in "a rural city" where the president suddenly ordered the dancing women hired as entertainment to strip.
The women, known as the "Group for Pleasure," were a frequent presence at Mr. Kim's banquets....the chef detailed the nude dancing party, saying that the Group for Pleasure women at first "hesitated, but they had no power to resist."
"They all took off their clothes and danced. Then [Mr. Kim] ordered his men, including me, to dance with them. He said, 'You can dance with them, but if you touch them, you will be arrested as thieves.' "
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. We may be struck with Shrub and his prevaricating posse, but at least we haven't been subjected to nude dancing girls in the White House...well, so far as we know.
