Tuesday 18 January 2022
Bodyguards
Daily NK recently obtained an original copy of the standards for selecting members of so-called “Unit 974,” the bodyguard unit tasked with protecting North Korea’s top leadership. The standards were reportedly changed last November, going into effect this year...
The source said bodyguards should be prepared to become “meat shields” (people prepared to sacrifice their lives), something children raised in carefree cadre homes would never do. He said because of this, the authorities choose children of laborers and farmers who are willing to die wherever and whenever just to hear that they “gave their lives in the line of duty fighting as revolutionary warriors loyal to the Supreme Leader [North Korean leader Kim Jong Un].”
Horribly fascinating, it almost makes the word 'bodyguard' into a euphemism. Not that anyone civilised would ever suggest that Harry is demanding meat shields. Tempting though.
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I thought the main criterion for being selected as a bodyguard for Kim Jong-un is that you are young, female, and pneumatic. Perhaps "meat shield" has different connotations in Korean. Sort of a counterpart to "pork sword".
Wouldn't Harry and Sparkle's need to be vegetarian?
Sam - and presumably another criterion is that they haven't been brought up on standard North Korean rations.
Woodsy - good point - so that could would be a 'nut shield'.
Taking a hit for their Dear Leader is probably their only option.
Nobody is allowed near him with anything more lethal than a sharpened pencil and a wee notebook.
Maybe the notebooks are bullet proof.
Doonhamer - apparently they can find themselves in very serious trouble if they forget the pencil and notebook.
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