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Alleged Chef to Kim Jong Il Writes Tell-All Memoir

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2003 3:56 AM

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It sounds a bit like an Elvis book.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Jim Walsh   22 years ago

    Geez! Where the hell is Albert Goldman, now that we really need him?

  2. Mike   22 years ago

    The Dear Leader seems to have a history of culinary adventures.

  3. Tom Hynes   22 years ago

    Get drunk at your wedding,pass out, and Kim will personally shave off your pubic hair? Is this cribbed from the trailer to American Wedding or vice versa?

  4. Plutarck   22 years ago

    Wh@t$ wr0ng w1th t@|k1ng |1ke th1$, d0Od??

  5. boo   22 years ago

    These details may all very well be true but we have no way
    of being sure. I think one reason newspapers and magazines
    have so many articles about bizarre NKorean behaviour is
    the journalists can write *anything* about Kim Jong-il with
    no one able to check, and such things $ell -and he's not going
    to sue. One source or no source at all... I'm sure much of what
    we "know" about Kim is BS.

    Has anyone heard about how Kim Jong-il is a fanatical matchbox collector
    who has over 2 million different matchboxes? All North Korea's foreign
    ambassadors are given the task of finding new matchboxes from their country
    of residence and sending them off to Pyongyang.

    I just made up all that up but I wouldn't be surprised to read it in the New York Times
    in a month.

  6. Jesse Walker   22 years ago

    I agree. Furthermore, the author is anonymous and "in hiding," making it even harder to check his claims. That's why I called him "alleged" and compared this to an Elvis book.

    Maybe this stuff is true, and maybe outsiders are quick to believe absolutely anything about North Korea. Either way, it's a story worth noting.

  7. jacob dreyer   22 years ago

    does anyone else think it is cheesy and annoying to write the word "sells" "$ells" or write corporatons "corporation$" or shit like that?
    i hate that stuff, man.

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