By ju-min Park and Josh Smith
Seoul (Reuters) -After Kim Jong Un met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, North Korea employees carefully wiped the elements touched by the country’s supreme leader, while analysts say it is part of a set of security measures to counter foreign passports.
Even with the emergence of the emerging friendship between Kim and Putin, shots on Wednesday showed extraordinary measures of the isolated state to hide any evidence about Kim’s health.
In a post on Telegram, the Kremlin Alexander Yunashev correspondent shared a video of KIM employees in accurately cleaning the room in the Chinese capital, where Kim and Putin met for more than two hours.
The backrest and armrests were cleaned on the chair, and a coffee table was cleaned next to the Kim chair. Kim was also removed drinking glass.
The reporter said, referring to North Korea: “After the negotiations ended, the employees accompanying the President of the Democratic Korea destroyed all the effects of Kim’s presence,” referring to North Korea.
After talking in the room, Kim and Putin left to attend the tea meeting and offer warm farewell to each other.
As during previous foreign trips, Kim fill his own toilet on a distinctive green train that he transferred to Beijing to hide health evidence, according to the Japanese newspaper Nikki, a martyr of the South Korean and Japanese intelligence agencies.
Michael Madden, a North Korean leadership expert at the US Motivation Center, said that such measures are a standard protocol since the era of Kim’s ancestor, and his father Kim Jong Il, a North Korean leadership expert at the Motivals Center in the United States said.
“The special toilet and garbage bags required of waste, waste and cigarettes are so that the foreign intelligence agency, even friendly, does not get a sample and test it.”
“It will provide an insight into any medical conditions that affect Kim Jong Un. This can include signs of hair and skin,” he said.
In 2019, after the Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump, Kim’s guards were seen preventing the floor of his room at the hotel to clean the room for hours, and to take out things including bed bed.
Kim team has been accurately monitored to clean the elements before using them as well.
During his 2018 meeting with the then South Korean President Moon Jae In, the North Korean security guards sprayed a chair and office with the antiseptic and wiped him before Kim sat to sit.
Before he was sitting at another summit with Putin in 2023, the security team wiped his chair with the antiseptic, and he was firmly examined to ensure that the chair was safe, as one of the guards used a metal detector to wipe the seat.
(Participated in the reports of JU-MIN Park and Josh Smith; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
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