Putin gave Kim a second Russian-made Aurus limousine — a hulking automobile the North Korean chief is claimed to have taken a shine to throughout a earlier summit in 2023 in Russia’s Far East. Putin is commonly pushed round in an Aurus, and he was seen through the 2023 assembly exhibiting his off to Kim. Several months after that encounter, Kim bought his first Aurus delivered, courtesy of the Kremlin.
The leaders had been proven in photographs broadcast by North Korea’s state-run media taking turns driving one another round in Kim’s new limo on Wednesday, smiling within the black leather-based inside.
KRT/North Korean state TV
Other items from Putin to Kim on Wednesday included a tea set and a naval officer’s dirk, or small dagger.
Ushakov stated through the summit that Kim’s presents to Putin included paintings depicting the Russian chief, and the North’s state-run media stated Thursday that Kim had additionally given his counterpart a pair of Pungsan canines.
The males had been proven in video aired by North Korean state TV admiring the 2 animals, a neighborhood breed of canine, which had been tied to a fence coated in roses within the gardens of the Kumsusan Guesthouse within the nation’s capital.
KCNA by way of REUTERS
The Reuters information company stated Pungsan canines are bred within the north of the nation as looking animals.
Kim was additionally seen feeding carrots to a horse through the leaders’ stroll by way of the backyard. Horses are intertwined within the mythology on which North Korea’s ruling Kim dynasty bases its energy. Kim has beforehand been proven astride a galloping white horse close to Mount Paektu, the Korean Peninsula’s highest peak, which is revered as sacred within the North.
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Putin has additionally been proven by his nation’s state media using a horse, topless on a minimum of one event.
Former South Korean president Moon Jae-in was additionally gifted a pair of Pungsan canines from Kim in 2018, throughout a fleeting interval of far more cordial inter-Korean relations.
