https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15569845/Secrets-Kim-Jong-Uns-sexual-Pleasure-Squad-Women-girls-hand-picked-satisfy-North-Korean-leaders-young-virgins-life-force-absorbed-sex.html
Secrets of Kim Jong Un's sexual 'Pleasure Squad': Women and girls are hand-picked, to 'satisfy' North Korean leaders, so that a young virgin's life force can be absorbed by the old men during sex
In 2015, just over three years after he became the third supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un resurrected a sordid family tradition, still shrouded in mystery today.
The infamous dictator, now 42-years-old, ordered the creation of a brand-new 'Pleasure Squad', continuing the legacy of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the hermit kingdom's founder and Eternal President.
It's only through snapshots of testimony from courageous defectors who have fled the regime and spoken out about the dark reality of North Korean society that the truth of the underground troupe has been unearthed.
The girls, whose role is to please their leader, are plucked from classrooms and must endure invasive medical tests determining their virginity before they are deemed worthy of a life of sexual servitude.
As tradition goes in the Kim family, the virginity of selected partners is of particular importance, because the act of sex allows the supreme leader the chance to absorb the girls' so-called 'ki' or life-force.
In the late 1970s, at the peak of Il Sung's ascendancy, he ordered his officials to scour the nation for its most attractive young women and girls to act as his own personal singers and dancers - a tradition that his son, Kim Jong Il, mirrored during his rule until his death in December 2011.
Following the conclusion of a three-year official mourning period, Kim Jong Un - confident in his iron-clad grip on power - began to select a new generation of female companions for his own pleasure.
Now, it is not rare to see images of the despot surrounded by crowds of young, reverent ladies, almost crying with apparent admiration for the cruel autocrat, but who are these weeping women, and what do they really think of their leader?
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (centre) is often seen surrounded by large groups of women. (Pictured: Kim with members of a women's company)
A North Korean cheer squad in matching outfits performed their routine and sung in unison at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Kim Jong Un is surrounded by weeping members of the Korean Children's Union
Born in Hyesan, Yeonmi Park was 13 when she escaped Kim Jong Il's brutal dictatorship by traversing the frozen Yalu river with her mother in the dead of night.
She went from her famine-dominated childhood to spending the next perilous years being trafficked around northern China by violent gangsters who ran forced marriage and prostitution rackets.
Eventually settling in South Korea then the United States, Park found success through her 2015 memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, and her popular YouTube channel with over a million subscribers, where she criticises the regime.
For speaking out against the dictatorship, Pyongyang has denounced the outspoken 32-year-old as a 'poisonous mushroom' and a 'human rights propaganda puppet'.
In one video on her channel, entitled The Regime Grooms Kindergarten Girls Into The Pleasure Squads, Park described how Kim Jong Un is treated 'like a God' in North Korea.
'He has a pleasure squad,' she said in a video from 2023. 'They pick girls around the town, in their elementary school, in their kindergarten, and they groom them', she added, into becoming masseuses, dancers and singers, who are obliged to perform sexual acts for the country's elite.
A year later, Park returned to the horrifying topic, when she alleged that officials 'visit every classroom' and 'even go to school-yards in case they missed someone that was pretty', in their sinister searches for young women.
Speaking to the Star, she said Kim takes time each year to select 25 virgin girls to entertain him personally, after undergoing invasive medical exams.
The women then 'have to learn how to please these men - that's their only goal,' she said.
According to the activist, now a conservative commentator who often compares life in the hermit kingdom to 'woke' ideology in the US, Kim's officials select women based on social status and attractiveness.
The operatives reserve those deemed the most appealing for the despot himself, with 'less stunning members... ordered to cater to the needs of lower-ranking generals and politicians'.
With rare insight, she claimed the 'Pleasure Squad' is broken into three divisions: one specialising in giving massages, another in entertaining through song and dance, and a third prepared to be 'sexually intimate with the dictator, and other men'.
Park claims she was fortunate to avoid selection for Kim's harem due to her 'family status', suggesting 'they eliminate any girls with family members that have escaped from North Korea or have relatives in South Korea or other countries'.
But she said for many, life in North Korea is so dire that parents will happily allow their daughters to be recruited in the hope they might enjoy a better quality of life.
Most citizens are extremely poor and access to basic necessities like clean water, sewage systems, fridges and washing machines is scarce.
Life in the 'Pleasure Squad' is often short-lived, however, with women cast out when they reach their mid-twenties.
Some will be married off to Kim's personal bodyguards, she claimed, adding that 'there are rumours' that the leader's 'wife was originally in the Pleasure Squad'.
Park said the system had evolved as a family tradition, with the incumbent leader preferring more 'slender', taller and 'western-looking' women while his father, Kim Jong Il, had a penchant for round-faced women who would not dwarf him, standing at just 5ft 2in.
Kim Il Sung, father to Kim Jong Il, 'had a more traditional taste in women', meanwhile, with his own group called the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, Park said.
Yeonmi Park was 13 when she escaped Kim Jong Il’s brutal dictatorship by traversing the frozen Yalu river with her mother in the dead of night
Park is not the only defector who has made claims about the regime's illicit network of sexual entertainers, exploited by the country's most powerful.
In 2010, one defector told Marie Claire magazine that she was just 15 when two men in uniforms snatched her from her classroom at school without warning.
Mi-hyang claimed they made a record of her background, in line with Park's account, and asked her if she had had sex before.
'They made a detailed record of my family history and school record,' she recounted. 'I was also asked whether I had ever slept with a boy. I felt so ashamed to hear such a question.'
After passing the prying tests, she said she was expected to spend a decade with Kim Jong Il as part of his Kippumjo, or 'Pleasure Squad'.
She claimed she was barred from speaking to her family during that time and knew that she would be executed if she tried to escape.
Any attempt at dissent, or to defect, was an offence punishable by death, she was warned.
Mi-hyang insisted that the dictator never made sexual advances on her as a teenager, but would hold her hand.
She was convinced had she stayed in the role through to adulthood, he would have, however.
'Kim Jong Il displayed a basic sense of morality,' she said, before conceding that when drunk, the despot could become 'somewhat perverted'.
She added: 'He would touch my head and hold my hands, but he never called me for intimate moments because I was still a student and not over 20 years old. I think he would have done so if I had stayed a little longer.'
For two years, Mi-hyang travelled with Kim Jong Il, his close officials and other girls in the 'Pleasure Squad', spending time in his luxurious residences around Pyongyang, or vacationing in his country homes in the Kangdong or Yongsung provinces.
Sometimes, she shared a room with one of the dictator's most favoured women, another recruit named Mi-ok.
'She thought I would be her successor,' Mi-hyang said. 'But she was never jealous of me and treated me as if I was her blood sister. She used to hold me tightly and tell me that I would follow in her footsteps. I was lonely in there, but she was lonely as well, so we became friends.'
Aidan Foster-Carter, a senior research fellow at the University of Leeds, said up to 2,000 women are conscripted to the 'Pleasure Squad' at any one time. They are aged between 18 and 40, yet most are under 25, he said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with residents on February 16, in a photograph released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
More testimony came from Lee So-yeon, a former military musician who fled to South Korea in 2008, who claimed dancers and singers were forced to strip and provide sexual services at parties held every day for the country's Central Politburo.
The woman revealed in a horrific account to Bloomberg: 'North Korea's art troupe came here and performed with fancy dances and songs, but not only do they have to be in charge of Kim Jong Un's propaganda, they also have to go to parties and provide sexual services.
'These parties are held every day for the Central Politburo. And even if they don't want this they have to serve with their bodies, like a human rights infringement.
'The women there, when they attend, they have to undress. They are asked to undress like objects. That's the physical pain they have to go through.'
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South Korean city of Gangneung, North Korean cheerleaders stole the show when they burst into a perfectly choreographed routine during a women's ice hockey match.
The crowd was instantly transfixed as the group swayed in unison and sung songs in Korean while waving small unified Korean Peninsula flags to the delight of the home crowd.
But following the event, a former member of the cheer squad, Han Seo-hee, told the BBC that the group of women were referred to as an 'army of beauties'.
She added that before such performances, each cheerleader underwent three months of ideological training to ensure their loyalty to the regime.
'We were not just there to cheer, but we were told to go into the heart of the enemy,' she said, recounting her experience being employed by the regime as a propaganda prop.
'The North trained us to have this basic mindset, that we were on the frontline of promoting the Juche (self-reliance) ideology,' she added.
'We were separated for different kinds of psychological training,' she said. 'We were told we should not be surprised or shocked by another world. In particular, the training's focus was that we shouldn't forget our home country, not even for a minute.'
In 2006, twenty-one members of North Korean cheering squads who travelled to South Korea for sports events were sent to a prison camp for talking about what they saw in the South.
The female squad apparently violated a repressive pledge not to speak about what they witnessed while competing.
Kim's pleasure troupe is not just restricted to his residence, with previous reports of strippers being packed into his vile 'Pleasure Train'. Pictured: Kim Jong Un boards his train at a railway station in the town of Artyom outside Vladivostok in the Primorsky region, Russia, September 17, 2023
Kim's pleasure troupe is not restricted to his residence, however, as reports have swirled of strippers being packed into his vile 'Pleasure Train'.
The armoured palace on wheels, used to transport the despot to China to join the meeting of world leaders that included Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping last September, is viewed by many as an aging symbol of his family's dynastic rule.
The heavily fortified locomotive, that travels no faster than 37 mph and was also used on a 2023 trip for a summit with Putin in Russia, is not solely a vehicle for the dictator's diplomatic affairs.
According to a 2020 report by DimSum Daily, its 20 carriages are equipped with pink sofas, a conference room and a gallery where Kim eats the finest meals.
On the train, the dictator is often surrounded by young girls and women, normally aged between 13 and 25, the report claimed, who are tasked with entertaining their leader.
Those who have had boyfriends are normally disqualified from entering the pleasure troupe, while the females who are deemed worthy enough of boarding the train receive around 20 months of training and study foreign languages such as English, Japanese and Chinese.
The girls are even schooled on sexual servitude and are given information about contraception.
The average reported salary of the women, who act as 'lady conductors', is between £1,500 to £3,000.
Hee Yeon, whose name was changed to protect her, told the Mirror that while millions of North Koreans are forced to subsist on nothing more than grass or bark to survive, Kim enjoys £1,000 lunches consisting of delicacies such as Bird’s Nest Soup - made of solidified bird saliva - and caviar.
The young woman, who lived a life of relative luxury in the capital as the daughter of an army colonel, witnessed the worst of the regime when she saw a group of 11 musicians being viciously executed at a football stadium after they were accused of making a pornographic video.
She also told the newspaper how she witnessed classmates being taken away to be his sex servants.
'Officials came to our schools and picked out teenage girls to work at one of his hundreds of homes around Pyongyang,' she said.
'They take the prettiest and ensure they have straight, good legs.
'They learn to serve him food like caviar and extremely rare delicacies. They are also taught how to massage him and they become sex slaves.
'Yes, they have to sleep with him and they cannot make a mistake or object because they could very easily simply disappear.'
Asked what happens if they get pregnant, she replied: 'Maybe the same.'
Kim Jong Un speaking during the opening of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea, February 19
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the 78th anniversary of the founding of the armed forces, in Pyongyang, North Korea, February 8
In 2022, Kim spent £122,000 on importing women's fancy underwear, as his population suffered in destitution, data suggests.
Trade figures show North Korea imported a haul of bras, girdles, corsets, braces, suspenders and garters, even as 45 percent of the country suffered with undernourishment, according to the UN’s ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report’, published in 2023.
The elusive upper echelons also enjoyed some £2,675,000 worth of spirits and liqueurs, mostly coming from main trade partner China.
For entertainment, the country imported some £203,000 worth of video game consoles and parlour games, even as the rest of the population suffered systematic electronic surveillance and the constant threat of public executions and forced labour.
In an astonishing UN report published last September, based on interviews with 300 witnesses, the human rights body found that surveillance in the country has grown more pervasive with the help of new technologies, while punishments have become harsher - including the introduction of the death penalty for offences such as sharing foreign TV dramas.
'Under laws, policies and practices introduced since 2015, citizens have been subjected to increased surveillance and control in all parts of life,' the 14-page UN report said in its conclusion.
'No other population is under such restrictions in today's world,' it said.
The report came more than a decade after another landmark study found that North Korea had committed crimes against humanity.
Kim held a ceremony on Wednesday to unveil the deployment of 50 new launch vehicles for nuclear-capable short-range missiles threatening rival South Korea, as he flaunted his expanding military capabilities ahead of a major ruling party congress that began on Thursday.
In a statement, Kim’s sister, who is a key foreign policy official, acknowledged a South Korean minister’s apology regarding alleged civilian drone incursions, but said the North is bolstering border security against the 'enemy' South.
North Korea has suspended nearly all talks and cooperation with the South since 2019, when Kim’s nuclear diplomacy with US President Donald Trump derailed over US-led sanctions.
Relations worsened in recent years as Kim discarded the North’s long-standing goal of peaceful reunification and declared a hostile 'two-state' system on the Korean Peninsula, a stance he may further institutionalise in the Workers’ Party’s constitution during the ongoing congress.
Experts say North Korea’s large artillery rockets blur the distinction between artillery systems and short-range ballistic missiles because they can create their own thrust and are guided during delivery.
They are part of Kim’s growing collection of nuclear-capable short-range weapons that are designed to overwhelm missile defences in South Korea.
Kim, in a speech, said the 'wonderful' rocket launchers are equipped with artificial intelligence and advanced guiding technologies tailored to carry out a 'strategic mission,' a term that implies nuclear purpose.
He said the Workers’ Party congress - which will likely run for days in Pyongyang - will see the announcement of new plans to expand the capabilities of his nuclear-armed military, which already has various systems targeting US allies in Asia and long-range missiles potentially capable of reaching the US mainland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15569845/Secrets-Kim-Jong-Uns-sexual-Pleasure-Squad-Women-girls-hand-picked-satisfy-North-Korean-leaders-young-virgins-life-force-absorbed-sex.html
No comments:
Post a Comment