North Korean Leader Receives New Car, Smuggled Through 5 Countries

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has replaced his personal vehicle with a luxury foreign car that is prohibited from being exported to his country. During the first national conference of mothers in 11 years, held in Pyongyang on the 3rd and 4th of this month, Kim Jong Un arrived in a private vehicle. According to South Korean media, the car features the "Maybach" logo on the rear door, with the numbers "S650" on its trunk. The channel reported that the new "Mercedes Maybach" was shipped starting from 2019. Since Kim Jong Un used his previous car on a train during his visit to Russia last September, it seems that the replacement with the German car occurred in the last month or two. The "Mercedes Maybach S650" is considered one of the best cars, priced in the hundreds of millions of Korean won, and is classified as a luxury good, subject to the United Nations Security Council's export ban to North Korea. As a result of The New York Times tracking the route of "Mercedes Benz" cars to North Korea in 2019, it was found that the car was smuggled through 5 countries over the course of 4 months.