▲Aurus limousine, a luxury car made in Russia, driven by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. They are on their way to university, protected by a police vehicle that appears to be a new Toyota Land Cruiser. / Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap News
From the 28th, the presence of six Toyota Land Cruiser 300 SUVs, never seen before in the motorcade protecting the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has been confirmed. This means that the UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea, which prohibit the sale and delivery of shipping and luxury goods to North Korea, do not work. The other day, North Korea released a series of luxury cars as if to fake sanctions.
General Secretary Kim Jong Un founded the Korean People’s Army in 1992.
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▲Aurus limousine, a luxury car made in Russia, driven by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. They are on their way to university, protected by a police vehicle that appears to be a new Toyota Land Cruiser. / Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap News
From the 28th, the presence of six Toyota Land Cruiser 300 SUVs, never seen before in the motorcade protecting the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has been confirmed. This means that the UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea, which prohibit the sale and delivery of shipping and luxury goods to North Korea, do not work. The other day, North Korea released a series of luxury cars as if to fake sanctions.
When Kim Jong-un visited the Kim Il-sung Military University on the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army, an analysis of the screenshot shown by Korea Central Television on NK News, a US media outlet specializing in North Korea, revealed . ced motoring Six of the foreign made passenger cars were visible in Toyota Land Cruiser 300s. NK News reported on the 25th. The cars, believed to be used by Kim Jong Un’s security personnel, cost more than $80,000 each.
At the time, Kim Jong-un was riding in a Russian-made Aurus limousine, which he received as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin in February this year. 170 billion won (about 19 billion yen) is said to have been invested in the development of President Putin’s ceremonial vehicle, the Aurus, also known as the “Russian Rolls-Royce.” being Kim Jong-un’s motorcade there are two Maybach GLS600 luxury SUVs made by Mercedes-Benz of Germany, two Lexus LX SUVs from Japan, two Transit minibuses made by Ford, and five older Mercedes-Benz sedans. These are all luxury foreign cars that North Korea would not be able to buy if the United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea were respected.
When Kim Jong-un attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a factory in Narucheon County, South Pyongan Province at the end of February this year, a small bus that appeared to be a Ford Transit was seen in the motorcade in his company, causing controversy. At the time, Kim Jong-un was riding in a Maybach limousine, followed by a Lexus SUV and four minibuses, believed to be Transit buses. About two months later, another foreign-made luxury car appeared in Kim Jong-un’s motorcade.
Kim Jong-un is also known to be a fan of luxury foreign cars. Earlier this year, she was seen riding a Maybach GLS600 luxury SUV in a North Korean documentary, and when she attended a national mothers’ convention last December, she was seen driving a new Maybach sedan that went on sale in 2019. I was ride an S6500. It was a different car to the Maybach S600 Pullman Guard limousine used during the 2018 inter-Korean summit. When Pompeo, then US Secretary of State, visited North Korea in October 2018, Kim Jong-un was greeted in a Rolls -A bulletproof Royce Phantom, and when he visited the site of a flood disaster in August 2020, he drove an SUV that appeared to be one. It was a Lexus LX570.
In 2020, the United Nations Security Council Panel of Experts on the Sanctions Committee on North Korea speculated that the bulletproof Maybach limousine used by Kim Jong Un was smuggled into Pyongyang through six countries: Italy, the Netherlands, China, Japan , South Korea. , and Russia.” he did. With the recent close ties between North Korea and Russia, it is very likely that Kim Jong-un has found it easier to get new luxury cars made from abroad through Russia. Russia has been criticized for vetoing a UN Security Council vote to extend the term of the Panel of Experts on Sanctions against North Korea last month, causing North Korea’s surveillance network to collapse.
Reporter Kim Jin-myung
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