Putin’s Gift to Kim Jong-Un of Unusual Presidential Limo Is Sign of ‘Budding Bromance’ Between Two Strongmen
Will the North Koreans dare put the Aurus on the street for public view when they may not have the spare parts, experience, and training to make sure the beast is running properly?
Next time the North Koreans stage a huge parade featuring their latest long-range missiles, all eyes are likely to be on another new model in their inventory.
That would be an eight-ton, armor-plated limousine that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is gifting North Korea’s strongman leader, Kim Jong-un. It’s an Aurus Senat, which appears to be a knockoff of two of the West’s best-known limos, a Mercedes-Benz and a Rolls-Royce with maybe a touch of a Bentley.
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