North Korean state media said the luxury limo symbolized the closer relationship between the two leaders.
North Korea's luxury-loving leader was driven for the first time in a new limousine recently gifted to him by his Russian counterpart, according to the country's state media.Kim Jong Un used the 'special private car' at a public event on March 15, his powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, said in a statement issued the next day via the official Korean Central News Agency, which expressed the regime's 'heartfelt thanks' to the Kremlin.
The Kim-Putin friendship is believed to be far from symbolic: South Korean intelligence reports said last fall that Pyongyang likely received technical assistance from Russia when the North launched first its first spy satellite into orbit.And the United States and its allies have accused North Korea of shipping millions of rounds of artillery shells to Russia and an unknown quantity of ballistic missiles, both of which have allegedly been fired in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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