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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
Tue May 10, 2016, 02:00 PM May 2016

Japanese sushi chef says Kim Jong-Un has no plans for war



TOKYO —

A Japanese sushi chef who served Kim Jong-Il claims North Korea’s current leader has no intention of waging war with the United States.

The chef, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, told a Japanese tabloid magazine he was invited to Pyongyang last month for the first time in almost four years, and that Kim Jong-Un himself picked him up at the airport.

“I was surprised when I looked at the driver’s seat,” Fujimoto was quoted as saying in a piece written under his byline in the weekly Shukan Gendai. “Field marshall Kim Jong-Un himself was driving, he’d come to check up on me.”

Fujimoto, one of the few non-Koreans to have met the young leader, said that he arrived in Pyongyang on April 12 to have dinner with Kim, who greeted him with a hug and asked about feelings in Japan toward the secretive state.

Fujimoto, who is said to carry business cards emblazoned with the words “Kim Jong-Il’s chef,” reportedly replied: “With blunt honesty: it’s terrible. Since the start of the year there have been nuclear and missile tests.”

continues...http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/japanese-sushi-chef-says-kim-jong-un-has-no-plans-for-war


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Japanese sushi chef says Kim Jong-Un has no plans for war (Original Post) yuiyoshida May 2016 OP
Well... linuxman May 2016 #1
Dennis Rodman? immoderate May 2016 #2
Well duh. He's our ambassador! linuxman May 2016 #3
 

linuxman

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1. Well...
Tue May 10, 2016, 02:03 PM
May 2016

If you can't trust a sushi chef who spent a couple weeks in NK that one time, then who can you trust?

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