North Korea wipes traces of Kim Jong Un after Beijing meeting with Putin
By Ju-Min Park and Josh Smith
Seoul (Reuters) -Man Jong Un After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, North Korean employees carefully erased the things woven by the country’s highest leader when they said that they were part of a security measures against foreign spies.
Even with the emergence of friendship between Kim and Putin, shooting on Wednesday showed extraordinary measures to hide any clues about Kim’s health.
In an article about Telegram, Kremlin correspondent Alexander Yunashev shared that Kim’s two staff meticulously cleaned the room in the Chinese capital, where Kim and Putin came together for more than two hours.
The back of the chair was cleaned and a coffee table next to Kim’s chair was cleaned. Kim’s drinking glass was also removed.
The reporter said, “After the negotiations were finished, the personnel who accompanied the head of DPRK carefully destroyed all the traces of Kim’s presence.” He said.
After the talks in the room, Kim and Putin left for a tea meeting and offered each other a warm farewell.
As in previous foreign trips, Kim, referring to South Korean and Japanese intelligence organizations, packed his own toilet on a green train that took him to Beijing to hide his health clues.
US -based Stimson Center’s North Korean Leadership Specialist Michael Madden, Kim’s predecessor father Kim Jong Il since the reign of such measures have been a standard protocol, he said.
“The necessary garbage bags of the necessary toilet and the necessary detritus, waste and cigarette butts, a foreign intelligence agency, even a friendly intelligence agency will not take an example.” He said.
“Kim will give information about the medical conditions that affect Jong Un. This may contain hair and skin labels,” he said.
In 2019, after a Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump, Kim’s guards found that he prevented the base of the hotel room, including cleaning the room for hours and a bed bed.
Kim’s team meticulously cleans the items before using them.
At the 2018 meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean security guards sprayed a chair and table with disinfectant and wiped it before coming to sit.
Before sitting at another summit with Putin in 2023, the security team wiped the chair with disinfectant and was violently controlled to ensure that the chair was safe using a metal detector to scan the seat.
(Reporting by Ju-Min Park and Josh Smith; Regulation by Lincoln Feast.)
