2024-02-22 16:16 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang/Reporting in real time
North Korean state media recently reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a Russian-made luxury car as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The spokesperson of the US State Department made ridicule on the 21st, and later accused the Moscow authorities of violating United Nations resolutions.
KCNA pointed out that North Korea’s Workers’ Party Central Committee Secretary Park Jong-chon and Vice Minister Kim Yo-jong received a “Russian-made special car” from Putin as a gift to Kim Jong-un on the 18th. Kim Yo Jong pointed out that this move was the best gift that clearly proved that the leaders of Russia and North Korea had created a particularly close relationship, and solemnly conveyed Kim Jong Un’s grateful greetings to Putin to the Russian side.
KCNA did not mention the details of the Russian-made special car. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed the matter and said that Putin had given him an “Aurus” brand luxury car that he also used. Peskov explained that Kim Jong-un saw the car when he visited the Vostochny Cosmodrome, and Putin showed it to him personally. “Like many people, Kim Jong-un liked this car, so we made this decision.” ”.
According to the Guardian report and a verbatim transcript of the U.S. State Department’s regular press conference on the 21st, a reporter mentioned Putin’s delivery of a car to Kim Jong-un and asked whether this violated United Nations sanctions.
State Department spokesman Miller said he had indeed seen the report, then quipped, “Actually, to be honest, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a Russian luxury car,” and then joked that he “hopes Kim Jong Un has an extended warranty, I’m not sure I If you want to buy a luxury car, you will consider Russian products.”
Miller then sternly pointed out that the United Nations Security Council resolution indeed stipulates that all member states prohibit the supply of transportation vehicles and luxury cars to North Korea. If Putin’s donation of cars is true, “Russia seems to have once again violated the United Nations Security Council resolution that it supports.”
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