North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered a new “pleasure troupe” of young women to entertain him. Kim, 32, whose country is notorious for its allegedly widespread and horrific human rights abuses, is reportedly drawing up lists of a new generation of female companions, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The “pleasure troupes” were a practice introduced by Kim’s grandfather, North Korea’s founding father; the ‘Eternal President’ Kim II-sung. Government officials would conduct searches of the countryside for the most attractive young women, typically taking 30 to 40 every year; who would become maids, singers, or dancers following an interview with the leader: The prettiest would be expected to become the leader’s
concubines, eventually passed on – or “retired”- to high ranking military or government officials after they reached their mid-20s.
What a world we live in now in 21st century with the rulers still practising the feudal features like harem in Asia? As reader of India's Mogul history where I learnt the working of harems in the forts of Mogul Emperors like Akbar and Jahangir in 15th and 16th centuries, but shocked to know similar trends in North Korea. The used and enjoyed by the rulers, the ladies in mid 20s were passed on to the officials at the end. What a spoils system in place?
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