I Spent A Day With Kim Jong's Actual Bodyguard

Hi, I'm Kang. This man used to be Kim Jong-il's private bodyguard, and knows what happens inside North Korea's inner circle.

If Kim Jong il likes a girl That woman completely becomes Kim Jong-il's own personal property. I can't begin to process how insane that is.

Now we are here in his new home of Seoul, and I'm going to ask him all the burning questions that no one else can answer.

You probably know Kim Jong Un, the country's current dictator who's obsessed with nuclear rockets. But his father, Kim Jong-il, was an even scarier leader.

Kang guarded his residence for more than thirteen years. And he's about to spill all the juicy secrets for the first time.

We're on our way to my favorite spot in Seoul, the fish market, so I can break the ice.

So, tell me a little bit about your childhood. Where exactly in North Korea are you from? And what are your very first memories of life there?

During my early childhood, I could never have imagined a world like this one. We lived in a city called Hyesan, in the Ryanggang Province of North Korea.

Near the Chinese border. When you were really young, what do you remember about your childhood? What was your education like in elementary school?

We really couldn't just go out and play around freely at all. We lived what's called a very organized life, a structured existence.

From the age of eight, you'd wear a Children's Union necktie, almost like a uniform, and then you'd join an organization.

it was nearly impossible to see the wider world. You had to move exactly as the organization instructed, During our childhood, so it was very hard to see the wider world.