Kim Jong-il's glow-in-the-dark Chef

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From the Free North Korea! site...
Book Says North Had Nuke Accident in 1995
by Choi Heup
- Kim Jong Il's Life, Told By His Chef
TOKYO-Plenty of revelations are coming forth from the new book written by Kim Jong Il's former Japanese chef, Kenji Fujimoto, though they are difficult to verify. Fujimoto said that a nuclear accident occurred in North Korea in 1995, and that those involved in the nuclear facilities were damaged by a great deal...
Fujimoto, who was Kim's chef from 1988 to 2001, when he defected, released "Kim Jong-il's Chef" in Japan on Friday.

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Book Says North Had Nuke Accident in 1995

Kim Jong Il's 3rd Son Said Favored
Chosun.com / Jun. 22, 2003 19:27 KST

..."It is said that Jeong-cheol [Kim's second-son] theory enjoys computers and other sedentary activities, so he is not the leader type," the official said. "But Jeong-woon is active and has leadership qualities, so we are trying to get more information about him."

The third-son theory is supported by a tell-all book on Kim Jong Il written by his former chef and released last week in Japan. The author, Fujimoto Genji, said, "After the first son Jeong-nam was caught trying to secretly enter Japan in 2001, there were stories that Jeong-cheol was a likely candidate. But it's more likely that the third son, Jeong-woon will be in that position."

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The Washington Post "discovers" the story almost a year after the story broke in Japan and Korea and then uses the phrase, "Today..." Sheesh.

The Dear Leader, On a Platter
Sushi Chef's Book Details Kim Jong Il's Many Purported IndulgencesBy Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 16, 2004; Page A11
TOKYO -- For North Korea's ruler, Kim Jong Il, the latest tell-all book on the shelves in Japan is the rawest of betrayals: the confessions of the Dear Leader's own sushi chef.
Lured to Pyongyang from the sushi bars of Tokyo in 1982 by a Japanese trading company and a $5,000 a month contract, the 56-year-old Japanese chef caught the eye of Kim Jong Il a few years later and for more than a decade catered to Kim's exotic tastes.
Today he is back in Japan, and under his pen name, Kenji Fujimoto, wrote a best-selling memoir, "I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook." While North Korea is dependent on international food aid so that millions of its people do not starve, Fujimoto described Kim -- a despot to some, demigod to others -- as a sushi chef's dream: the ultimate gourmand.
"He particularly enjoyed sashimi so fresh that he could start eating the fish as its mouth is still gasping and the tail is still thrashing," Fujimoto said. "I sliced the fish so as not to puncture any of its vital organs, so of course it was still moving. Kim Jong Il was delighted. He would eat it with gusto."

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Fujimoto, who was Kim's chef from 1988 to 2001, when he defected, released "Kim Jong-il's Chef" in Japan on Friday.

I guess defected in N. Koreanese means kidnapped.

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Fujimoto, who was Kim's chef from 1988 to 2001, when he defected, released "Kim Jong-il's Chef" in Japan on Friday.

I guess defected in N. Koreanese means kidnapped.

I think you're reading it wrong. He defected from North Korea in 2001.

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Sushi chef says Kim Jong-Un has 'no plans for war'

A Japanese sushi chef who served Kim Jong-Il claims North Korea's current leader has no intention of waging war with the United States.

The chef, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, told a Japanese tabloid magazine he was invited to Pyongyang last month for the first time in almost four years, and that Kim Jong-Un himself picked him up at the airport.

"I was surprised when I looked at the driver's seat," Fujimoto was quoted as saying in a piece written under his byline in the weekly Shukan Gendai.

"Field marshall Kim Jong-Un himself was driving, he'd come to check up on me."

Fujimoto, one of the few non-Koreans to have met the young leader, said that he arrived in Pyongyang on April 12 to have dinner with Kim, who greeted him with a hug and asked about feelings in Japan towards the secretive state.

Fujimoto, who is said to carry business cards emblazoned with the words 'Kim Jong-Il's chef', reportedly replied "with blunt honesty: it's terrible. Since the start of the year there have been nuclear and missile tests."

Kim, whose plans to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal were formally endorsed this week at Pyongyang's first ruling party congress in nearly 40 years, offered a conciliatory response.

"The reason we launch rockets and missiles is the United States," the 33-year-old 'supreme leader' said, according to the report.

"When we begin talks with the Americans, they soon make unacceptable demands with difficult conditions. Although our relations with the United States remain perilous, I have no intention of starting a war," Fujimoto claims Kim added.

Fujimoto, who has a 24-year-old daughter by his Pyongyang-resident North Korean wife, also revealed that Kim had been on a recent wine binge.

"I emptied 10 bottles a few days ago and my stomach feels a little bad," Kim said at a dinner attended by some 20 senior North Korean officials, according to Fujimoto.

"Although maybe one glass won't do any harm."