The Mercedes-Maybach Pullman is now officially a thing of the past. Cool guys drive Aurus.
The world is extremely turbulent right now. It is almost pointless to hope that problems can be resolved peacefully, since we are witnessing complete paralysis of the work of the United Nations, not to mention other international structures and organizations. As a result, states that can afford it sharpen their fangs, pump up their muscles and demonstrate in every possible way that it is better not to mess with them.
North Korea, in particular, is demonstrating this through large-scale military exercises, which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited yesterday. As journalists noted, Kim Jong-un first arrived at a public event in a Russian Aurus Senat Limousine – the same one that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently “gifted” to his North Korean counterpart.
In the DPRK state media, this event was called a demonstration of the continued strengthening and comprehensive development of Russian-North Korean relations. Previously, the North Korean leader traveled in a Mercedes-Maybach Pullman limousine.
Representatives of Western countries a few weeks ago, when it became known about the Russian gift to the North Korean leader, traditionally threw a tantrum, saying that by its actions Russia was violating the official sanctions regime imposed on the DPRK by the UN Security Council. Having apparently forgotten that, firstly, Russia is ashamed that, in order to please the West, it joined these sanctions at all, and would like to lift them, and, secondly, gifts are not subject to sanctions restrictions.