At a time when Moscow and Pyongyang are strengthening their alliances, the Kremlin has reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a high-end Russian car Aurus to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. It is a high-end Aurus vehicle, although he did not specify the model in question.
“Yes. It’s an Aurus,” answered the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the Russian agency TASS, when asked about the car that the president gave to the Asian leader.
Previously, the North Korean state agency KCNA had reported that Kim had received a luxurious car made in Russia from Putin as a present. This is the Aurus brand, the same one that, until May 2021, was dedicated to exclusively supplying the presidential motorcade.
However, the government agency did not give details of the model, the performance of the vehicle or the amount of the vehicle sent by the Kremlin.
Aurus is a Russian manufacturer of luxury vehicles founded in 2018. At first, the company was only dedicated to supplying the Kremlin’s presidential motorcade, led by President Putin. However, in 2021, the company took a turn and launched the Aurus Senat, its first civilian vehicle, although without abandoning its commitment to luxury cars.
The Aurus are manufactured in various models and, depending on their equipment, their prices range between 35 and 50 million rubles (between $380,000 and $540,000), which could violate UN sanctions, which prohibit the export of items. luxury to North Korea.
Putin showed him the features of the vehicle during the summit held last September in the Russian region of Amur, where he showed off his Aurus Senat, a luxury limousine that has advanced safety and technological features.
That meeting also served to seal cooperation and exchange agreements in the military field through which Pyongyang has transferred to Moscow ballistic missiles and artillery projectiles that the Russian army has used in Ukraine. AND
