James Dresnok, the apparent Head Cracker In Charge among American military deserters in North Korea, needed a woman (don’t we all). Like the loving father it is, the Kim regime set out to provide him with one.
Of course, tainting the pure local blood was right out, so a creative solution was needed. The answer was to let him marry a foreign woman. Where did this woman come from? One newspaper thinks it knows the answer:
A Romanian newspaper says it has identified a Romanian woman, kidnapped in 1978, who married the U.S. Army deserter James Dresnok—reportedly the last U.S. defector still living in North Korea.
The report say that the woman, Doina Bumbia, disappeared while in Italy after being offer a “lucrative contract with an art gallery in Japan.”
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This is Robert Neff’s area of considerable expertise. (I think he’s writing a book on it.)
I also would have thought that “tainting the pure local blood” would be out, but the last time this topic went around, I remember reading that Comrade Joe’s second wife is half African and half Korean.
How about a memory check from my MH comrades, and if my memory proves faulty, I’ll do some self-criticism!
P.S. Check out Comrade Joe’s son (by his Romanian wife) in the behind-the-scenes footage provided by the British documentary guys. He is an apparently cool young guy.
On a not completely unrelated note, I just got around to watching State of Mind, which may have been the first documentary by the same British guys. I give the North Korean youth credit for one thing. Their Korean is easier to understand than that of young South Koreans. Too bad the North Korean youth are wasting all their energy on Mass Games preparations for The General.
The Romanian wife died, and Dresnok remarried. His second wife was the result of a liason between an African diplomat and a North Korean woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joseph_Dresnok
They kidnapped from Romania too?