Well, according to this report by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, about 4 billion U.S. dollars (via the JoongAng Ilbo).
He’s also apparently the world’s largest purchaser of Hennessey cognac, on which he spends about 720,000 U.S. dollars a year.
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We can guess what he gives to his cronies every Chusok. Well, that or he’s involved in bootlegging.
Hennessy XO sells for roughly $120 ea. Tack on $80 for shipping and handing. At $200 a bottle, thats 3600 bottles a year or almost 10 bottles a day. Thats some drinking habit…….even if he is sharing the booty. I think the nuke is really just a cry out for help……AA are you out there?
I guess Hennessy is very nervous about the survival of North Korea . . .
Hennessy and the japanese fallout shelter industry…
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/.....5000c.html
I heard he likes big blondie Swedish h00kers too, I guess he shares it with them. God knows they probably need to be sloshed to even think about doing the deed with toady…
LivingnKorea, actually he doesn’t just drink ANY Hennessy, he’s got class, he drinks ‘Number 1′ which supposedly runs around 800 bucks a bottle. But he still purchases more then he alone could drink, he probably uses some/a lot for guests at his various birthday parties and flogging celebrations.
But who doesn’t like big blonde Swedish hookers?
Shipping at 80$!?!?! They fly the bottles first class on Air Koryo?
I imagine that among the elite, Hennessy is currency.
Or would they be too honored to actually debase a gift from the Dear Leader by actually drinking it? Nah. They probably wanna get sloshed and forget the world they live in. But getting his minions drunk helps him. Who knows what little revelations they might burble out about power jockeying of rival elites? I know I’d be scared of shit being drunk in front of him, blurting out, “you fat little f%@#….”
Hatch SZ,
I’m sure you be a lot more scared to find yourself in front of him while you were sober.
PS Is the U.S. House Intelligence Committee the same group that brought us the information about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction?
Just asking.
And KJI also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
He also contributes drops of fuel to run the wheel of capitalism.
PPS The “PDF” linked is an image of a normal PDF that you can’t search or cut and paste from.
Every place I’ve looked at gives the same broken PDF.
Why publish a damaged twenty-six page document that you can’t fly through and search or copy? One that reads as if written by an hysterical teenaged girl?
Could it be connected to:
“…the Minority staff earlier this month chose to no longer participate in producing this valuable report”?
(From the opening letter.)
If it is so valuable, why would part of the team ditch it?
What does this say about the report’s integity?
Integrity
I wonder what sort of formal education Kim Jong-Il has received to justify such a high worth.
–Remort
Brandon,
Roger on the Swedish Hookers, but I prefer Asian ones
JiMong, don’t forget pizza. There’s an article floating around the net that was written by a famous Italian pizza chef who was hired to teach North Korea chefs how to make authentic Italian pizza.
bloomberg goes to hennessy to ask the hard questions…
Hennessy? Really? Man has the same taste in booze as he does sunglasses and leisure suits.
Speaking of which…know of any places around here that would sell me a shot of Remy Martin Louis XIII?