By Ju-Min Park and Josh Smith
Seoul (Reuters) -Nadat Kim Jong un was the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, have carefully wiped Noord -Korean staff members that were touched by the highest leader of the country, in what analysts say that there is part of a series of security measures to combat foreign spies.
Even with the appearance of budding friendship between Kim and Putin, images showed the extraordinary measures of the retrieved on Wednesday to hide instructions on Kim's health.
In a message about Telegram, Kremlin reporter Alexander Yunashev video from Kim's shared two employees who carefully cleaned the room in the Chinese capital where Kim and Putin met for more than two hours.
The backrest of the chair and armrests were scrubbed and a coffee table next to Kim's chair was also cleaned. Kim's drinking glass was also removed.
“After the negotiations were over, the staff destroyed the head of the DVK with careful all traces of Kim's presence,” said the reporter, referring to Noord -Korea.
After conversations in the room, Kim and Putin left for a tea meeting and take a warm farewell to each other.
As during earlier foreign journeys, Kim took his own toilet on a characteristic green train that brought him to Beijing to hide health instructions, reported the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, with reference to South Korean and Japanese intelligence services.
Such measures have been standard protocol since the era of Kim's predecessor, his father Kim Jong Il, said Michael Madden, a leadership expert of North Korea at the American Stimson Center.
“The special toilet and the required garbage bags of Detritus, waste and cigarette butts are so that a foreign intelligence service, even a friendly, does not acquire a monster and testing,” Madden said.
“It would provide insight into all the medical conditions that influence Kim Jong Un. This can include hair and skin tags,” he said.
In 2019, after a Hanoi top with US President Donald Trump, Kim's guards were seen who block the floor of his hotel room to clean the room for hours and switch items off, including a bed mattress.
The Kim team was carefully spotted with cleaning items before he also uses them.
During his meeting in 2018 with the then South Korean President Moon Jae-In, North Korean guards sprayed a chair and a desk with a disinfectant and wiped it before Kim came to sit.
Before he was at another summit with Putin in 2023, his security team wiped his chair with disinfectant and powerfully checked to ensure that the chair was safe, with one of the guards who used a metal detector to scan the chair, showed video images.
(Reporting by Ju-Min Park and Josh Smith; Edit by Lincoln Feast.)
