In North Korea Kim Jong-Un will be the only one who can wear leather jackets. News that bounces in these hours in all corners of the world, thanks to its intrinsic strangeness. The dictator has decided to stop the trade in synthetic leather in the bud, because the resulting jackets would be too similar to those he wears. And this would not be good for the cult of personality that prevails in the Asian country. After all, it is not the only object that only he, the self-proclaimed leader and maximum dignity in North Korea, He can have.
Kim Jong-Un, like many other dictators, loves to own luxury cars. At the time of the meetings with Donald Trump and the diplomatic operations with China and South Korea, the totalitarian leader had flaunted Maybach and Rolls-Royce, showing that the car embargo was by no means impossible to circumvent. To the point that Daimler, when asked about the matter, was unable to answer: “we don’t know how he gets them“. Daimler claimed not to have had relations with North Korea for at least fifteen years and reiterated to respect the embargo through “export controls to prevent deliveries to North Korea and each of its embassies around the world”. Adding: “the sale by third parties, especially with regard to used cars, is beyond our control and our responsibility“. In defense of the German group, it must be said that the dictator has never been seen driving too recent cars.
The Washington-based Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) discovered that cars passed through the Netherlands, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, before arriving in Pyongyang, thanks to a cargo ship that ‘concealed’ the signal. Instead of stopping directly in Russia or neighboring countries, he made a smuggling ‘tour’ on the North Korean coast, before re-establishing the official route.
The passion for cars came from his father Kim Jong-Il. Over the years he bought more than 30 Mercedes, including models such as G500, S65 AMG, S600 ‘Pullman Guard’ derived from the S-Class Kim Jong-Un continues in the tradition by being transported on Maybachs. But there is not only the Stuttgart house: on the basis of the rumors collected, it would have available an Audi R8, a Range Rover L322, a Rolls-Royce Phantom VII. But second Forbes the collection of cars would reach 100, all luxury cars, especially European ones.
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