The friendship between Vladimir Putin And Kim Jong Un was further strengthened after the recent visit to North Korea by the Russian president. The two leaders signed an important agreement which provides, as the head of the Kremlin explained, “the provision of mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the parties“, and which sounds like a warning to the West and its allies in the Indo-Pacific area, starting from South Korea. Putin and Kim, however, exchanged gifts highly symbolic: the first gave the second aAurus luxury caras well as a tea set it’s a admiral’s staffwhile the host offered to the guest artwork which reproduce the face of the Russian president and two dogs white hunting boats, of the North Korean breed Pungsan.
The Russian car and the mysterious white box
As mentioned, Putin gave his North Korean counterpart aAurus made in Russia. “We donated an Aurus“said aide to the Russian president Yuri Ushakov, explaining that it is the second car of this type given to Kim. The Kremlin chief gave a ride in the aforementioned vehicle to Kim, who sat in the passenger seat next to him. To be precise, it is one Aurus Senat Limousine L700with a value of approximately 200 thousand euros.
During the tour, the photos released by the North Korean agency Kcna they showed Putin and Kim smiling. However, in one image you can see a little one in the foreground white device at the height of the Aurus gearbox. Impossible to know what it is. It could be a mobile phone, a navigator or, some have speculated, a simultaneous translator to allow better dialogue between the two presidents.
Bloomberg Meanwhile, he drew attention to the fact that Putin violated a UN resolution by giving such a gift to Kim Jong Un. The supply of expensive cars to Pyongyang would in fact be banned by international sanctions of the United Nations, but the North Korean leader has repeatedly appeared in public in armored limousines of luxury brands such as a Mercedes-Maybach S600 Guard. On one of the Maybachs, by the way, Kim arrived for negotiations with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2023.
Kim’s dogs
For his part, Kim gave Putin two white hunting dogs while the two leaders were walking in the garden of the Kumsusan Palace, where the Russian leader stayed, and after signing a fundamental agreement for the continuation of their bilateral relations.
Putin, known for his passion for dogs and who in the past has received these types of gifts from numerous leaders, was immortalized by official photographers while holding out his hand to the two animals and next to a smiling Kim. The Russian president – who owns at least four dogs, including a Japanese Akita given by Tokyo and called Yume – would have thanked Kim for the gift, according to always Kcna.
Pungsan dogs are a national symbol for North Korea and come from the Kaema plateau, where they were used for hunting, while now they are a rare breed, also smuggled to countries such as China. According to Korean legends, it is a dog so powerful that it would be capable of hunt a tigeras well as having a noble temperament so he would never attack his masters.
Kim had already given this gift to the former South Korean president in 2018 Moon Jae In during the 2018 summit, and his father, Kim Jong Il, to former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, during the 2000 inter-Korean summit.
