There is growing interest in how a vehicle was imported to protect North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, which appears to be a product of the American automobile company Ford.
Last month, on the 28th, four vans believed to be “Transit” from the American company Ford were seen driving together behind the exclusive vehicle of Leader Kim Jong Un, a German Benz Maybach, as he traveled to the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a local industrial factory in Seongcheon-gun.
In response to the Radio Free Asia (RFA), inquiry asking if Ford knew North Korea had acquired Ford vehicles, a Ford official said, “Ford fully complies with U.S. sanctions against North Korea and has never provided products or services to North Korea.”
He stated, “We do not know how these vehicles were brought into North Korea.”
With the revelation of Leader Kim’s vehicle, believed to be a “Benz Maybach GLS 600,” and now the importation of American-made escort vehicles, it appears that the smuggling of luxury goods into North Korea is ongoing.
At the end of last year, top North Korean officials arriving at the headquarters of the central committee of the Workers’ Party Korea for a party plenary meeting were seen getting out of the highest-end German Benz sedan, the “Benz S-Class.”
Since the UN North Korea sanctions resolution banning the import of luxury cars, passed in 2013 and defined luxury cars as luxury goods, all forms of transportation have been prohibited from being imported since 2017.
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