The life of communism's playboy

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Kim Jong Il

LONDON – As Air Force One prepared to land at Seoul's glitzy airport, President Obama got his first glimpse, from the window, of North Korea – the country he has warned time and again he will not allow to become a nuclear weapons state, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Across the border from where Kim Jong Il rules, Obama was told on his whistlestop trip around Asia that Kim is "the mad, bad dictator dangerous to know."

He has impressive missiles, a stockpile of plutonium for dirty bombs and a track record of selling whatever weapons he has to dangerous customers.

Politely, Obama had tried the "open hand" approach – sending no fewer than four U.S. delegations to Pyongyang this year. They have come away with the news that the dictatorship is hard-wired to interpret conciliation as weakness.

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But now Britain's intelligence service MI6 has pieced together a picture of the lifestyle of Kim and a handful of the country's secretive elite.

It is a world of palaces stuffed with medieval antiques bought in Europe and Russia. Each palace has its own Hollywood-style heated swimming pool, equipped with a waterslide, together with a gymnasium and a kitchen serving delicacies brought in from all over the world.

Kim not only has the largest palace, built over two acres from stone and marble imported from Italy, he also has his own 18-hole golf course where only he and his cronies play and discuss their next strategy.

One of the few defectors able to escape North Korea has told MI6 officers based in Seoul that Kim's home is staffed by chefs, cooks and waiters imported from China.

Native-born staff members – cleaners and gardeners – have found their families have been moved into restricted districts, known as "Ku," as a precaution against any employee trying to escape.

The reports note Kim is obsessed with cleanliness. Every room in his palace is sprayed twice a day with a disinfectant made in one of the country's factories especially for Kim. Every member of his staff has to call him "Comrade Great Leader Kim Jong Il."

MI6 agents have concluded that both China and South Korea would like concessions to be made to avoid the collapse of the Kim regime.

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