The Dear Leader Enjoys Private Parties With His Pleasure Team
Next to the nuclear-weapons program, there is probably nothing more secret in North Korea than the "joy brigades," sometimes known as the "pleasure team." These are exceptionally pretty young women from the countryside who are brought to Pyongyang in their mid-teens. They are taught to sing and dance for the Dear Leaderâs private parties. Their principal purpose, of course, is to become sex objects for the Great Leader and his closest aides. When he is in a rare magnanimous mood, he is known to pass them out to his subordinates as party favors.
In one instance, after a drinking party he told the male guests they could have any of the young girls they could catch. This led to ludicrous scenes of elderly drunken lechers chasing the girls all over the palace. One defectorâs account paints the following scene:
[T]he party scene was overtaken by pandemonium. Men and women were rolling over each other near the tables and sofas. Young ladies were shouting, âComrade leader!â as they tried to escape. Elderly officials grabbed young ladies that had escaped into the restrooms where they forced them against washbasins to threaten them with comic faces. The scene was overtaken by extreme frenzy. The rest is censured. Rantburg is a family website.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-03-16 |