Hermit Kingdom’s Personal Shopper

Hermit Kingdom’s Personal Shopper

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He bought them cars, weapons, expensive furniture and the finest food –all while their people starved.

Col. Kim Jong Ryul says he spent two decades traveling to European cities on shopping spree-missions for North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim il Sung, and then later for his son, Kim Jong Il.

Helping to lift the shroud on North Korea’s brutal and mysterious regime, the German-speaking Kim claims to have bought luxury cars, carpets and gold-plated handguns with cash sent from Pyongyang. He says Mercedes was the favorite brand of the leadership, but they also liked Lincolns and Cadillac

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[edit on 12/3/2010 by Mirthful Me]

Wow some pretty revealing stuff, there IMHO

We all know this guy is evil, but the lengths he will go to starve his people while his friends and family live in the lap of luxury eat fine food, and by ornamental weapons?

Im not a warmonger, but perhaps hes right, and at some point i think they will put themselves in the corner like a rabid dog that has to be put down

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This doesn't really add up. The article states that he has family in N. Korea. Anyone who knows anything about N. Korea, knows that when political dissidents are exposed, not just them, but THEIR WHOLE FAMILIES are arrested and put into one of many forced labor prison camps. If there's a remote chance of a family member having pertinent knowledge about the government's operations - and in this man's situation, this is, unfortunately, surely the case - they are tortured in horrific ways.

So I'm thinking that either this guy is either lying about having family, lying about his work under Kim Jong Il, or delusional in thinking that the benefits of his "coming forward" outweigh the negatives regarding his family.

Seriously, if this guy is 100% telling the truth, then all he's accomplished is this - getting his family at the very least arrested, and at the very worst tortured & executed. Nothing else will come of this.

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He sure is an evil 'lil kim isn't he?
He also sent his spec ops people into the South to kidnap a film director,then proceeded to force them to make propaganda about him for years:

Kim was desperate to improve his image and, four years after coming to power, even kidnapped one of South Korea's most famous film stars, Choe Eun Hee, and her film producer-husband Shin Sang Ok.
They were forced to make a series of propaganda films for Kim, before escaping after nine years of imprisonment.

news.bbc.co.uk...

His assessment of Kim Jong Il: “He is human. But the political ideas inside his head are of the devil.”
Kim dismisses Pyongyang’s nuclear saber- rattling as “propaganda,” and he has a message for the U.S. in how to deal with the North Korean regime: “Destroy it.”
Kim is now seeking asylum in Austria, where police are already keeping a close watch over him. Considering North Korea’s history in dealing with dissidents, that’s a good thing.

liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com...

Hmmm,just destroy NK you say?
Would have a massive cost in lives for all concerned,without a single nuke being fired.
Not a great idea Colonel.Except for him of course,who is probably terrified of being suicided by NK Intel people,Austria or not.

Didn't Kim, in his prime, spend 10,000$ a month on Hennessey Whiskey?

That stuff is like 450$ a bottle.

And what about other leaders doing the same things: private jet, limousine, expensive clothes and food etc, while people in their country are, for some, sleeping in the streets by winter weather or getting underpay while they have 2 jobs and they just sit in their office to wait the end of the day and deciding what is supposedly good for us...


Just another piece of propaganda

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Jeepers,no wonder hes not looking too perky these days,thats a rock star level habit!

Loves his nukes too,by this account:

"When it comes to the orchestration of terror, Kim Jong-il is a natural born genius,"
said Kim Duk Hong. But the North Korean leader relies on the support of the army and secretly re-started the country's nuclear programme in order to keep them happy, according to Kim Duk Hong.
"If Kim Jong-il gives up nuclear weapons, then he will lose the support of the people in his inner circle of power. Then it's only a matter of time before his leadership collapses," he said.
"The nuclear programme is his survival strategy. He'll never give it up, if he says he will and invites the inspectors to watch him destroy his facilities, he will be lying."

news.bbc.co.uk...

Hmmm great mix,those ambitions and the whiskey!!!

And if my grasp of the situation is any where close to the truth,then he got his nuclear arsenal on the cheap when the wall came down...The guy has a train link right to Moscow,and some big connections through his father.

NORTH Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, enhanced his reputation for eccentricity yesterday by starting a 12,000-mile round trip to Moscow and back by train. Kim began his visit by crossing the Russian border in a 21-carriage armoured train. His journey across seven time zones to the Russian capital through Siberia and the Urals will take more than a week and will then be repeated in reverse on the way back.

www.telegraph.co.uk...

He loves that train,think it was a gift to his Father by Stalin.
Bet they filled it with Soviet nukes a few times,knowing the deviousness of 'lil kim.

You would think that to blow this guys story wide open to verify the "truth" of it all he would have given names of buisness partners, there surely had to be some kind of financial records, the orginizations in which he purchased there items through, customs logs of where and when he sent these items back to N.Korea (assuming he didnt smuggle them all) There would also be records of the firearms transaction if purchased legally. Just a thought.

Why it so puzzles people? North Korea cannot produce VIP quality cars. So they are surely purchased abroad. What simple people in North Korea got to do with it?
Country has Eternal(y dead) President. Leadership goes in the same family. So it is basically typical dictatorship with mix of skewed Marxism and Eastern approach to simple people. Why Kim should care about starving people if he wants new foreign toys??
By the way - invading such a places backfires, even without nukes. Iraq as an example? However regime will rot to its unavoidable death by itself if left alone.

Now, at 75, and at great risk to himself and his family still in North Korea, he’s decided to go public. Working with two Austrian journalists, who’ve checked his claims

Say what? They checked his claims?

As already mentioned by Son of Will, the fact that this guy's family is still in NK is more interesting than this (blog?) article.

Would any of what he says be true then you could bet your life that his family would be brutally tortured.

I'm sure NK's regime isn't starving, but proposed allegations seem more like randomly generated psyops ammo for general public.