Spies Love Good Cosmetics

[Index]

("DEFECTOR GIVES UP ON NORTH KOREA", 2005-11-03) reported that a woman who left her native Japan to live in the DPRK has decided that the country is less alluring than she first thought. Kazumi Kitagawa, 31, defected two years ago claiming she was persecuted in Japan after being forced to be a government mole in a doomsday cult. On entering the DPRK, she initially expressed excitement, saying she wanted to study the Korean language and work as a translator. Later, though, she complained about her cold hotel room, the constant surveillance by guards, and the lack of Japanese cosmetics, clothes, and snacks. The DPRK confirmed on Thursday she had been allowed to leave.

I guess you just can't have it all...

 

[lastmagi]

Ha, nice find, Index!

Yeah, it's all right when you're being persecuted that you have to leave your home country, but to leave behind the cosmetics, clothes and snacks?! Gee, and some people leave their country for such silly trifles like merely political persecution and political dissatisfaction! Those expats must feel so humbled now!

 

[shiroma]

北川和美

The most convincing interpretation seemingly is: she is a mental case, and North Korea got tired of dealing with her. Just think, what kind of attention-seeking "spy" would expose her naked body in a weekly mag, who is also a former Aum cult member for intentional or unintentional reasons.

She claimed that Japanese police forcefully made her an agent, in a letter to her father. Whatever she hullicinated must have pleased them comrades in Pyongyang, otherwise the letter must have been thrown to trash bin at the censorship office there.