Inside Kim Jong Un's 'Pleasure Squad': Defectors reveal system of sexual exploitation

Thousands of women and girls subjected to sexual slavery, forced separation from families, threat of execution, and systematic psychological control; at least 21 cheerleaders imprisoned for witnessing outside world.

Across three generations of the Kim dynasty, a system of institutionalized sexual servitude has persisted in North Korea, drawing girls from classrooms and conscripting women into roles of enforced intimacy with the regime's leadership. Defectors who have escaped at great personal risk have begun to illuminate the machinery of this practice — its rituals of selection, its hierarchies of exploitation, and the silence enforced by the threat of execution. What emerges is not an aberration but a structure, one that mirrors the broader architecture of a state built on absolute control over human bo

Inside Kim Jong Un's 'Pleasure Squad': Defectors reveal system of sexual exploitation

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