John Mann’s encounter with Kim Jong-il

We’ve all been there. You’re at a work event, you don’t really know anyone so soon you end up talking to the strange fellow in the corner. At least that’s what happened to John Mann a few years back when he attended a conference and ended up having a chinwag with a North Korean dictator.

Speaking on Question Time, the Labour MP revealed his encounter with Kim Jong-un’s late father – Kim Jong-il:

‘I once met his father, only in passing and he was like him – strange family, strange people. It was at a conference and no-one was talking to him and no-one was talking to me so I went and had a word with him. It’s a bit like being in Parliament sometimes’

"No one was talking to me and no one was talking to him so I went over and had a word with him"

@JohnMannMP on his meeting with the former leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il #bbcqt