The Time Kim Jong-il Ate Six Beagle-Sized Rabbits

And other North Korea stories.

Rabbit, with dog for scale. Photo by Stamatisclan.

In 2006, an armored limousine rolled into the driveway of rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky. As Szmolinsky recalls, the vehicle contained more or less the entire staff of Germany’s North Korean Embassy.

Szmolinsky prided himself on the size and quality of his beagle-sized rabbits; the North Koreans shared…