By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire
In what's perhaps one of the more frustrating juxtapositions, Kim Jong-Il fed his dogs better than his people. This summer we pointed to the work of an undercover journalist who snuck into North Korea with a camera and recorded startling images of starving young children, digging through the trash to survive. In the dictator's compound, the situation was much different. From The Times, once again:
But inside the sealed world of Kim Jong Il, the Japanese chef recalled, the only time food shortages came up was when employees at a villa kennel were caught eating beef intended for Kim's pet dogs.
"Kim Jong Il ordered the kennel director to go to a labor camp for two years and the others for one year," he wrote in the new book. "Twenty kilograms of beef in the refrigerator every day must have been a great temptation to the workers who were never given beef."
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