North Korea has been in the news a lot lately, so one would expect that many people have been searching for information on this mysterious, unstable country. What one wouldn't expect is a stream of bizarre porn-related search requests involving either North Korea or Kim Jong Il. Strange things are going on. Where do I start? I know I've been rambling on and on over the past week about getting hits from people looking for some variety of North Korean porn, but this story is getting odder and odder. I've gotten six or seven hits today from people who've never hit my blog before looking for either North Korean porn or porn and Kim Jong Il. One hit was from Turkey. Turkey! Obviously there's a demand of sorts for either North Korean porn or information about Kim Jong Il's love of porn. Sadly, I can't capitalize on this need. I have an innate talent for ferreting out useless, obscure information, but I've so far dug up nothing online that deals with North Korean pornography or Kim Jong Il's love of, or participation in, pornography, except this quote from Michael Moore's new book, Stupid White Men:"[Kim Jong Il]has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne". I haven't read this book yet, so I don't know what the context was, nor do I know what source, if any, Moore was using.

Below is a list of today's (so far) Korea-related search requests that led to hits on my blog, with the search engine used and where my blog was ranked.

north korean porn --Yahoo -- 1
"Kim Jong il" girl --Turkish Google -- 9
"Kim Jong-il" porn -- Google -- 1
North Korean porn -- Google -- 1
kim jong-il creepy -- Google -- 5
jong il kim weird -- Yahoo -- 7
Korean porn -- Korean Google -- 3