Kim Jong-Il’s personal shopper (!) has defected and written a book.

He is not an optimist:

North Korea’s dictatorial regime is unlikely to fall anytime soon, a defector who once worked for leader Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung, said here Thursday.
“It’s unthinkable,” said Kim Jong Ryul, a former colonel on Kim Jong Il’s personal security detail, told AFP.
Ryul [? more likely Kim — Koreans, like Chinese and Japanese and sundry other folk, put surname first — J. D.], who has lived underground in Austria for 15 years after fleeing his country in 1994, reemerged briefly on Thursday to talk to the press on the publication of a book about his life, Im Dienst des Diktators (“At the dictator’s service”). . . .
“I thought after the death of the great dictator Kim (Il Sung), this regime wouldn’t last long. I waited two-three years, then it was five years. What is it now? 15-16 years. So I was mistaken, I was gravely mistaken,” he told journalists.