North Korean leaders are said to hold exclusive sexual parties, with thousands of young girls hand-picked from schools. But is Kim Jong-un carrying on the tradition? The girls are picked out at random by soldiers β sometimes from their own school classrooms. Their family and medical histories are closely examined, and routine check-ups are performed to ensure their virginity is intact. These are the claims of various defectors who managed to escape North Korea over the past decade.
Each one describes the mysterious group in similar terms - a bizarre secret world where girls are plucked out of society and trained as high-class adult entertainers. The Pleasure Squad is made up of North Korean girls, and divided into three specialised groups - one for sexual services, one for giving massages, and one for live singing and dancing, which they can be made to do semi-nude.
Within the walls of North Korea, the practice is incredibly secretive, and knowledge of its existence comes solely from defectors who have fled to China or South Korea. Kim Jong-un has reportedly reformed the Pleasure Squad. From that moment on, the girls are not permitted to see or speak to their relatives. After defecting, she told her story to Marie Claire magazine in She said she was only 15 years old when two men in bemedalled green soldier uniforms stormed her classroom without warning, and scanned the room.
Mi-Hyang said they made a detailed record of her schooling and family history, and directly asked her if she had ever had sex with a boy. When the assessments were complete, the girl was to spend a full decade servicing Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un. She was not allowed to speak to her family, and she knew if she was caught trying to run away, she would be executed immediately.
North Korean women could be chosen as young as 13 or as old as 40, but they were generally young. The chosen girls, she said, had to meet strict criteria. They were to be under cm tall, free of scars and blemishes, and had to have a soft, feminine voice. Being a virgin was imperative. Girls might be sent to Hong Kong for months at a time for advanced massage training, or sent elsewhere to learn to sing and dance professionally.
