Ha....and his daddy ate the rabbits:
In what was claimed to be a scheme to solve North Korea’s crippling, deadly famine, North Korean officials got in touch with a German giant rabbit farmer named Karl Szmolinsky. It seems like a great idea: rabbits breed fast, and giant rabbits, at upwards of 20 pounds each, have a good amount of meat on them.
So a posse from the North Korean embassy stops by Szmolinsky’s farm and buys up the six biggest rabbits he’s got. He even gives them a low price, inspired by the good cause his giant livestock would be going to, and ships them off to Pyongyang a month later.
Then, as Szmolinsky told Vice in an interview:
A few weeks later a journalist from London called me. He’d just got back from the birthday celebrations of Kim Jong-il and said he’d seen my rabbits, including Robert. They were being eaten by the leader and his guests. It’s clear to me now that the whole thing was a big scam. They sent in their ministers and invented a story to trick me, just so they could put on a fancy banquet for their leader. In my opinion all politicians are bandits. They’re definitely not getting any more of my rabbits.
No word yet on whether Kim Jong Il’s son and “Dear Successor,” Kim Jong Eun, has inherited his dad’s sophisticated palate, but we’ll undoubtedly find out soon. Ha...maybe just send Lady Gaga and her meat dress:
