A North Korean defector has told of how dictator Kim Jong-un selects 25 virgin girls annually to join his creepy 'Pleasure Squad'.
The women are picked based on their looks and political loyalty, according to Yeonmi Park. Park says that she was considered twice for the dubious honour of serving the leader and his party cronies but didn't make it due to her "family status". She said: "They visit every classroom and they even go to school-yards in case they missed someone that was pretty.
"Once they find some pretty girls, the first thing they do is check into their family status their political status. They eliminate any girls with family members that have escaped from North Korea, or have relatives in South Korea or other countries." The process then involves a medical examination to confirm their virginity. Those who pass this stage face another rigorous medical check, where minor imperfections, like tiny scars anywhere on the body, could lead to disqualification, reports the Daily Star.
This intense scrutiny leads to the selection of "just a handful of girls from all around North Korea", who are then transferred to Pyongyang. Once selected, says Park, these girls' sole purpose becomes pleasing the dictator. The late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il believed that "having sexual intimacy with young teenage girls would give him immortality". He died from a massive heart attack in 2011 at the age of 70.
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park (YouTube)Kim Jong-Il devised the idea of this "pleasure squad" in the 1970s, Park explained. She continued: "He thought 'If I pick some pretty girls, and place them where my father Kim Il-Sung stays, he might find that very pleasurable. So he picked beautiful women and put then in resorts that Kim Il-Sung visited. Kim Il-Sung was so touched that his son thought of his pleasure, and that's why he nominated Kim Jong-Il as his successor."
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In 1983, Kim Jong-Il created a second "Joy Division" for his own use. Park said that the makeup of the pleasure squad has changed over the years because all three men had a different taste in women. She continued: "Kim Il-Sung had more traditional taste in women, because he was older, so he had his own group called Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble. Kim Jong-Il had this own pleasure squad called Wangjaesan Light Music Band.
"Their body types were a bit different. Kim Jong-Il preferred women taller than 160cm [about 5'2"] not that tall because Kim Jong-Il was very short. " She says that the women the older Kim picked tended to be quite round-faced." Kim Jong-un tends to select more "slender" women for his personal entourage and favours taller, more "western-looking" women. "There are rumours that his wife was originally in the Pleasure Squad," Park added.
The so-called "pleasure squad" in North Korea is divided into three distinct groups, according to a defector. One group is trained in massage, another specialises in performing songs and dances for the entertainment of Kim Jong-un and his close associates, sometimes even appearing publicly as the Moranbong band.
Yeonmi Park was twice considered for the creepy 'Pleasure Squad' (yeonmi_park/Instagram)The third faction is tasked with "a sexual activities division," as Park revealed, stating: "They have to be sexually intimate with the dictator, and other men. They have to learn how to please these men that's their only goal." The most attractive girls are selected to serve Kim himself, while others are assigned to satisfy lower-ranking generals and politicians.
In the desperate conditions of North Korea, parents reportedly consent to their daughters joining the Pleasure Squad, seeing it as a way to ensure they won't suffer from starvation. When members of the squad reach their mid-twenties, they are considered past their prime and are typically married off to one of the leader's bodyguards.
Park claims that retiring Pleasure Squad members view it as a privilege to choose a husband from among the eligible security personnel. Park, who has faced scepticism with some branding his accounts of life in North Korea as overblown, asserts that the ruling Kim family are "paedophiles who expect to be worshipped as gods."
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