No, not our Dear leader, the other one.
Via Telegraph:
A quick recap for those of you who aren’t obsessed with North Korea. The Democratic Republic long ago realised that it couldn’t do the basics like grow food or keep the lights on, so it decided to focus on the fields of military and light entertainment instead. Of course much of its military output is entertaining and much of its entertainment has a decidedly military feel – from mass games to girl bands singing about the birds, the bees and nuclear fallout. And all of this variety performance is being slowly undone by the country’s continued slide into mass poverty. The missiles are old and probably unusuable. And the entertainment corp is starting to look a little frayed, too.
The Kim family has long been entertained by dance troupes comprised entirely of virgin girls. But – oh, the irony! – the Kims’ taste for Stalinist economics is reducing the number of virgins available for recruitment. A defector told the Chosun Ilbo, “Dire economic straits compounded by a weakening regime have led to an increase in prostitution, drug abuse and human trafficking in North Korea.” The regime blames this on the decadent influence of capitalism (as if every household has HBO), but the sad reality is that empty bellies are forcing young girls to sell their bodies in order to feed their families. The result: “A physical exam for the military draft of 16-year-olds … in Chongjin showed that more than 60 percent of the girls had had sexual experiences”. The defector reports that this means the dance troupes are becoming understaffed – although the cynical would point out that virgins who entertain the Kims don’t stay virgins for very long. They’re a family of “playboys”, in the way that seedy old men who put a coin in a slot and watch a naked woman slowly rotate behind a window think they’re a veritable Roger Moore.