Image: VLADIMIR SMIRNOV (POOL)
This is a car from the Russian state car manufacturer Aurus, as presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed according to the Russian news agency RIA. The car was for Kim’s “personal use” and was handed over by the Russian side to his closest associates on February 18, the official North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Tuesday.
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Kim’s influential sister, Kim Yo-jong, thanked the Russian side with the words: The gift is clear evidence of the special personal relationships between the two leaders. South Korea criticized the gift as a possible violation of UN sanctions, which, among other things, ban the delivery of luxury cars to North Korea.
Russia has increased cooperation with the isolated and internationally isolated North Korea in the wake of the Ukraine war. The West suspects that North Korea is supplying Russia with artillery ammunition and rockets for use in Ukraine. Russia neither denied nor confirmed this. North Korea denies the accusation of supplying arms to Russia, which would also constitute a violation of UN sanctions. Kim met Putin on a state visit to Russia in September, during which both sides agreed to closer cooperation. During a visit to the Vostochny space center in the Russian Far East, Putin invited Kim to get into his Aurus Senat state car. Kim himself drove to the space center in a Maybach limousine that he had taken with him on a special train from Pyongyang.
Avid car lover
Kim is considered an avid car enthusiast and has a large collection of foreign luxury vehicles, which were probably smuggled in. He has already been seen in Mercedes limousines, a Rolls-Royce Phantom and a Lexus SUV, all luxury goods whose delivery to North Korea is banned by UN Security Council resolutions against the Asian state’s nuclear and missile program.
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