Kim Jong-il’s Personal Shopper Speaks

MTV should bring back Cribs for this: Kim Jong Ryul served as Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il’s personal shopper until he fled to Austria 16 years ago. What did the North Korean dictators like? Kim says they had dozens of villas, some of which were underground and had special ventilation systems in case of nuclear attack. Kim Il-sung would only eat foreign food, apparently. “In Vienna, there was a special attaché, a friend of mine, who only procured special food for the dictator,” says Kim. “The crazy dictators heard rumors that Austrian cuisine was world famous and that’s why they wanted [the cooks] to come here.” Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il also had a collection of cars including Mercedes, Fords, Cadillacs, and Lincolns. Other items include special monitors that could detect people hiding behind walls and gold-plated pistols. Kim Jong Ryul faked his own death in 1994 and now has a book coming out.