{"id":12685,"date":"2011-12-20T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:00:16","slug":"qotd-inside-the-world-of-kim-jong-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/qotd-inside-the-world-of-kim-jong-il\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Inside the world of Kim Jong-Il"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Kim Jong-il enjoyed the life of a spoiled playboy &mdash; fast cars, fast women, cellars of vintage French wines and a passion for Rambo and Daffy Duck videos. He was also said to take pleasure in caviar, Hennessy Cognac and his troupe of 2,000 dancing girls, recruited from the country\u2019s high schools as teenagers to perform in \u201cpleasure groups\u201d in the dictator\u2019s 32-odd villas and palaces &mdash; before being pensioned off at 25. Each pleasure group was composed of three teams: a \u201csatisfaction team,\u201d which performed sexual services; a \u201chappiness team,\u201d which provided massage; and a \u201cdancing and singing team.\u201d Visitors were treated to choreographed stripteases, though only Mr. Kim was allowed to avail himself of the other services.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Vandaelle, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/20\/inside-the-world-of-kim-jong-il-the-glorious-general-and-his-pleasure-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Inside the world of Kim Jong-il: The Glorious General and his \u2018pleasure groups\u2019&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2011-12-20<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-il enjoyed the life of a spoiled playboy &mdash; fast cars, fast women, cellars of vintage French wines and a passion for Rambo and Daffy Duck videos. He was also said to take pleasure in caviar, Hennessy Cognac and his troupe of 2,000 dancing girls, recruited from the country\u2019s high schools as teenagers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41],"tags":[104,279,43],"class_list":["post-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-quotations","tag-booze","tag-korea","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12686,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}