Rich Lowry at The Corner got an email:
Mr. Lowry:I wonder how much the benighted taxpayers paid for the services of this genius?
Regarding your Sept 9, 2003 New York Post Opinion `The Right Answer to North Korea': Regarding President Kim Jong Il, it is un-professional, and un-productive to refer to the head of a country as a "lunatic". It is also another sad example of White American Male Supremacy. Please don't become part of the problem with such name-calling."
[NAME WITHHELD]
Former U.S. Department of State Foreign Service 1985-88
1999-2001 contracted US Mission UN Protocol under Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke
But wait, maybe I could overcome my WAMSS (White American Male Superiority Syndrome) if I broadened my horizons to take in the full glory of ole Juche Fruit. Here's a start - Naked girls, caviar and dog stew - Kim Jong-Il lives it up:
Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea and the most dangerous remnant of George Bush's "axis of evil", orders his troupe of female dancers to strip for guests and dines on the finest imported foods while most of his countrymen starve to death in his famine-plagued land.I'll skip the hairdo and the dog stew, thanks, but what about the girls?
In a rare insight into his life of privilege and excess, Kim's former executive chef has described how the "Dear Leader" washes down exotic sushi, Iranian caviar and gourmet shark fin soup with vintage French wines from his 10,000-bottle cellar before treating himself to his favourite tipple, Hennessy XO cognac.
The diminutive dictator with the bouffant hair is also partial to the traditional Korean delicacy of dog stew. Yet his desperately impoverished people have been reduced to making gruel from wild roots and tree bark - and even eating human flesh on sale at farmers' markets, according to some recent reports.
Kim's "Pleasure Group" of female singers and dancers are a staple attraction at all-night banquets prepared by dozens of highly-trained chefs.Woohoo! That puts WAMSS to shame fer sure! How can I get me some of that Absolutist Superiority Syndrome (acronym left to the reader)?
On one occasion witnessed by Mr Fujimoto, Kim ordered the girls to strip naked, then made his guests dance with them, but warned them to go no further. "Dancing is okay but you can't touch. If you touch, it's theft," the Dear Leader told them. Kim, he writes, specifically forbade his underlings to sleep with members of the Pleasure Group.
Mr Fujimoto later married one of the troupe's entertainers whom he first glimpsed singing at one of Kim's late night banquets; the next time he saw her, she was boxing other women for the amusement of guests.
