abstract:is the pen name of a Japanese chef who claimed that he was former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's personal sushi chef from 1988 to 2001. Fujimoto published a memoir in 2003 entitled I was Kim Jong Il's Cook, detailing many of his experiences with Kim Jong-il.
The chef, KenjiFujimoto, later described the teenagerina memoir as a "chip off the old block, a spitting image ofhisfather in terms offace, body shapeandpersonality.
In a memoir about his decade serving as Kim Jong Il's personal sushi chef, a man who goes by the pen name KenjiFujimoto recalled that basketball was the young Kim Jong Un's biggest passion, and that the Chicago Bulls were his favorite.