TBILISI — Laughing and joking, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cruised around Pyongyang last week in a Russian-made Aurus limousine to showcase their strengthened anti-Western alliance.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un riding an Aurus car in Pyongyang, North Korea.
The two leaders took turns driving the armoured limousine during Putin's pomp-filled visit, his first in nearly a quarter of a century to North Korea, in a demonstration of the two nuclear powers' increasingly close ties. Reuters could not determine specifically which imported foreign parts ended up in the car gifted to Kim, and the imports were not in breach of sanctions — Aurus LLC was sanctioned by the US in February 2024.
South Korean firms were among the largest suppliers to Aurus, including industrial equipment producer Kyungki Industrial, car body parts manufacturer BYT and batteries supplier Enertech International.
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