Posted on 04/02/2015 2:13:48 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
NORTH Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered a new "pleasure troupe" of young women to entertain him.
Kim, 32, whose country is notorious for its allegedly widespread and horrific human rights abuses, is reportedly drawing up lists of a new generation of female companions, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Despite being married to a former singer with whom he has a baby daughter, the dictator is drawing on a tradition established by his father - Kim Jong-iI - that saw government officials scour the countryside and select girls for the leader.
The previous "pleasure troupe" was disbanded on the death of the old dictator in December 2011, but with the official three-year mourning period now over, Kim is free to start his own.
The "pleasure troupes" were a practise introduced by Kim's grandfather, North Korea's founding father, the 'Eternal President' Kim Il-sung.
Government officials would conduct searches of the countryside for the most attractive young women, typically taking 30 to 40 every year, who would become maids, singers, or dancers following an interview with the leader.
The prettiest would be expected to become the leader's concubines, eventually passed on - or "retired" - to high ranking military or government officials after they reached their mid-20s.
"This has been going on under three generations of the Kim family ruling North Korea and it has become a tradition that is also a demonstration of the leader's power over the people and his sexual power," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, told The Daily Telegraph.
It is thought that the previous "pleasure troupe" were paid-off following Kim Jong-il's death. South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo claimed the women were given approximately $4,000 (a huge sum in North Korea) and various household appliances.
Last November the United Nations voted overwhelming to try the North Korean leadership on charges of human rights abuses. As yet, there has been little tangible effect.
Approximately 120,000 political prisoners still languish in camps, known as kwan-li-so, according to a UN report last year.
Bill is on the way
Good to see Egalitarianism as the Defining Principle in the Communist Paradise
Yep. He’ll help pick them out.
Kim and Obama are two peas in a pod...
I wonder if Obama has his “pleasure troup” of men...
Then the poor girls will have TWICE as much to laugh about! ;)
A-Newly-Used-Wasing-Machine!
And this Newly-Used-Wefigerator!
I'm guessing, that one guy in there will be a favorite.
And if they don’t go along with it, those appliances double as torture devices.
I wonder if the people are so duped that being picked is seen as a great honor?
He looks a little nervous.
They will have no choice, these girls are slaves and if they refuse or mess up their entire extended families could be divided up and sent to the camps, including the children
That pic is on a page about Korean Belly Dancers...
They would die for their leader for any cause, or nothing at all.
They won’t have much choice but to pretend
Close enough.
Does that wefrigerator have we-fi on it, sort of like a weird wi-fi?
Cordially,
I’m sure. i wondered how any of them avoided being tossed into a shredder when the harem was disbanded 3 years back.
I am sure they were scared of something like happening when the last big guy died
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