Video what he did, with great care, Kim Jong's team, after the North Korean leader met with Vladimir Putin
Kim Jong was met with Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Photo: Str / AFP / Profimedia
After Kim Jong met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, the North Korean team accompanied him carefully deleted everything the supreme leader of their country, a measure that, according to analysts, is part of a series of security measures meant to counteract foreign espionage, reports Reuters.
Even in the context of the appearance of an increasing friend between Kim and Putin, the images broadcast on Wednesday showed the extraordinary measures taken to hide any indication of Kim's health.
In a post on Telegram, the Russian pro-Kremlin journalist Alexander Yunashev distributed a video in which two members of Kim's staff cleaned the room in the Chinese capital in which Kim and Putin met for more than two hours.
The backrest and armrests were rubbed, and the coffee table next to Kim's chair was also cleaned. The glass used by Kim was also taken from there.
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Kim Jong o takes on his external travel his own toilet
“After the negotiations are concluded, the staff who accompanied the RPDC chief carefully destroyed all the traces of Kim's presence,” said the Russian journalist.
As during previous travel abroad, Kim brought her own toilet with the green train that was transported to Beijing, in order to hide indications about her health, wrote the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, citing South Korean and Japanese intelligence.
Such measures are a standard from the age of Kim's predecessor, his father Kim Jong Il, said Michael Madden, an expert in North Korea at the US Center.
“The special toilet and garbage bags needed for residues, waste and cigarettes are meant to prevent foreign information agencies, even friends, to get evidence and test them,” said Madden.
“They would provide information about any medical conditions that affect Kim Jong Un. As well as the hair,” he said.
In 2019, after the Hanoi meeting with US President Donald Trump, Kim's guards were seen blocking access to his hotel room to clean it for hours and remove objects, including the bed mattress.
Kim's team was seen cleaning the objects meticulously before he used them.
During his 2018 meeting with the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, the North Korean security guards sprayed a chair and a disinfectant office and wiped them before Kim came.
Before sitting at another summit with Putin in 2023, his security team wiped the disinfectant chair and carefully checked if the chair was safe, one of the guards using a metal detector to scan the chair.
