Vladimir Putin doesn’t have many friends left in the world. North Korea’s eccentric ruler Kim Jong Un is one of them. It wasn’t always like this. About a new, old relationship with difficulties.
Last spring, Vladimir Putin had already sent his North Korean counterpart a gift across the border: a car. To be precise, it was a limousine, because dictator Kim Jong Un is known to be a fan of expensive models and collects luxury cars in his isolated and famine-stricken country.
A gesture full of symbolic power, because of course Putin did not just send any vehicle to the neighboring country.
Kim Jong Un actually likes to drive expensive cars from the West, despite all the sanctions. For his state visit to the Russian Far East last year, the eccentric dictator even brought his personal Maybach limousine, a product from Mercedes, on a special train.
Source: Stern
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