Russian President Vladimir Putin has given North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a luxury Russian-made car.
Pyongyang's state media said the limousine was delivered to Mr Kim's top aides on Sunday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed the gift, saying it was an Aurus, a full-sized luxury sedan of the type used by Mr Putin himself.
The two internationally isolated countries have forged close relations since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
North Korea is thought to be supplying Russia with artillery, rockets and ballistic missiles for the war, despite international sanctions on both countries. Both sides deny breaching sanctions.
Mr Putin welcomed Mr Kim to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East last September, in what was his first trip abroad in four years.
@EcstaticPretzelsLibertarian2mos2MO
The blowback and unintended consequences from our short sighted politicians and military industrial complex of this proxy war on Russia has just been amazing.
Putin’s clowns are Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Victoria Nuland and our whole State and Defense Department.
@JollyFlamingoGreen2mos2MO
Biden’s disastrous foreign policy has made the world more dangerous. I like the orange fellow better. He made friends not enemies.
@PolentaIkeWorking Family2mos2MO
The orange guy alienated our allies to the point where German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We [Europe] are on our own now."
The "friends" the orange guy made include Putin, Kim, and some other dictators.
Biden had to go a long way to get allies to work with the USA on Ukraine, the Middle East, and China after the orange guy almost destroyed our alliances.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Why do I, as an American citizen crying out under the yoke of devastating inflation, an invasion at the Southern Border, the industrialised butchery of a million unborn children per year via abortion, and an unelected bureaucracy that's at open war with my constitutional rights and liberties, give a darn about the leader of North Korea getting a freaking car?! Don't you think there's more important issues to discuss?!
This should not come as a surprise. It was a very predictable possibility that Russia would look to allies with the ability to bolster their military position, just as Ukraine did. Somehow, it never dawned on the pooh-bahs in DC that the conflict could throw an economic and technological lifeline to North Korea and Iran, but it should have. I guess the lessons of Kosovo did not sink in. In that one, the retrograde of the high-tech weapons we used there provided a giant leap forward for the Chinese military.
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@SenateSeatRickRepublican2mos2MO
Oh wow, a Russian car for Kim Jong-un. How original.
Guess that's one way to solidify their bromance.
@OutlyingMandateDemocrat2mos2MO
Russia(fascism), North Korea(communism), Iran(islamic extremism)+MAGA putinists. Interesting alliance.
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