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Inspector Comrade Kim Jong Ir
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Armored train on the main path. For the third time over the past 10 years, the “favorite leader” of the DPRK Kim Jong Ird in his armored train luxury, donated to his father Kim Il Saint, Still Stalin. Why did the chief theorist and practitioner Juchhe come from us - the New Times delved as
Official Russia smiled at the North Korean leader with such a radiant smile that it seemed to completely forgot about the peculiar sense of humor of the DPRK leader-in the 2000 he promised Putin to abandon the nuclear program, and then stated that he was “joked”, and about the unexpected unsuccessful launches of ballistic missiles in 2006, which fell into the sea near the Russian banks. Such cordiality could only mean one thing: the price of bilateral friendship increased sharply.
Do not glitter! The 70-year-old DPRK leader trusts only proven equipment and trusted people. His letter armored composition arrived in the capital of Buryatia Ulan-Ude on August 23 at 8.37 local time. At this point, employees of the security service and law enforcement agencies completely “cleaned up” the forecaster - even a viaduct was closed, which are used by many Ulanudans, getting to work. One of the victims of increased vigilance was the crew of the Buryat television and radio company, trying to capture the famous armored train: she was detained and delivered to the nearest police department.
During the meeting of the DPRK leader, the President of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn on the platform of the photo and video shooting, only protocol services were allowed. Telepertors and photorepectors “seriously” were warned: it is not worth it to combine cameras once again, since “North Korean snipers can respond to glare from lenses.”
The staff of the armored train was provided with relative freedom of movement along Ulan-Ude. The guests visited, in particular, in the Orthodox Church of Nicholas the Eagle - the patron saint of the railway workers - and the local ethnographic museum. One of the journalists managed to talk with the driver who had lunch in the usual Ulanuden cafe. It turned out that the special compound is serving two replaceable Russian brigades from Tynda. On the eve of the visit of Kim Jong Ira to Russia, they were taken to North Korea, where they accepted the electric train. They took the Korean leader back to their homeland. The driver flatly refused to be photographed as a keepsake.
"Kimchymyr arrived"
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| The train Kim Jong Ira consists of 17 wagons. At the Khasan border station, four more Russian cars were attached to them. The locomotives in “Compound No. 1” use diesel locomotives of a fairly old TEP-70BS series-they began to be produced in the USSR at the Kolomensky factory in 1973, and now in modified form they are produced in Russia. With him, Kim Jong Ir is carrying two cars. On one of them-the armored “Mercedes” of the 1995 S-Class-he proceeded on August 24 to a closed military town to meet with Dmitry Medvedev. |
The reaction of local residents to the visit of a high guest was surprisingly restrained. If it were not for the long automobile motorcades that followed in one direction, then in the other direction, and related problems with movement, the Ulanudans could not pay special attention to it. And the arrival of Dmitry Medvedev was perceived surprisingly calmly.
“Kimchymyr came to Buryatia,” the elderly woman, who was waiting for a regular bus, confidently declares.
- And who is it? - asks her citizen younger.
“President of Korea,” the old woman declares after a second thought.
Kim Jong Ir looked as an ascetic and at all events was in the usual jacket of military cut. During the introductory tour of Ulan-Ude, the North Korean delegation visited the central square of the city. The General Secretary of the Korea Labor Party could not help but pay tribute to Vladimir Lenin, whose monument in the form of a giant head is eight meters high in the center of the capital of Buryatia. Subsequently, this made it possible to place a photo collage in which the leaders of the two states, the DPRK and Russia compiled the founder of the Soviet state.
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| In Hassan, Kim Jong Ira was greeted with bread and salt |
Two megatitans at ten in the morning on August 24 in the most popular hypermarket of Ulan-Ude Megatitan unexpectedly appeared employees of the DPRK security service, and after a short period of time a motorcade of ten cars arrived here. Kim Jong Ir entered the building of the shopping complex, accompanied by President of Buryatia, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn. To the surprise of the staff of the store and ordinary Ulanudans, the shopping complex was not closed, the buyers were not withdrawn from the hall, and the work went as usual.
Kim Jong Ir and the accompanying people went around the main hall, especially the North Korean leader was interested in Russian -made products. The leader made the first stop near the shelter with vegetable oil and asked the head of Titan Vadim Blood, how many types of vegetable oil are now on sale. Delicium said that ten. “We have 26,” Kim Jong Ir said with satisfaction, explaining that in Korean cuisine, vegetable oil is used a lot and often, mainly soybean.
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| Kim Jong Il resisted the construction of the gas pipeline through the territory of the DPRK for a long time. But the debts have attached ... |
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The guests spent quite a lot of time with meat counter, where the North Korean leader expressed satisfaction with a large number of the presented sausages. For some reason, he paid special attention to delicacies. "Is there a ball?" - asked Kim Jong Ir at Brandiy. He was shown a ball. Having touched the product with his hands, he smiled and said: "Good food."
Kim Jong Ira in the wine and vodka department was completely unexpected. He asked about vodka in the Baikal water, and he was immediately shown the products of Baikalfarma. Seeing nearby on the Russian Standard rack, the North Korean leader perceived markedly. Apparently, this brand was already familiar to him. Although at a meeting at the Haim pass along the way to the village of Turk, one of the sections of the Baikal Harbor under construction under construction federal tourist and recreational zone-a bottle of Red Label was put in front of the leader.
As the employees of Megatitan later said, while the head of the foreign state, accompanied by Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn and translators, examined the shopping complex, the accompanying persons made simple purchases along with the rest of the visitors. In particular, they went through the cash desk, and later confectionery, bread, canned food were loaded into the motorcade.
In total, the unexpected visit of Kim Jong Ir Metitan lasted about 20 minutes. Photos and video shooting of the event was prohibited, and attempts were radically suppressed. As one of the local bloggers commented on this ban, “so that the people at the sight of grocery abundance in the hypermarket do not fall into a hungry fainting ...”
In the way, by the way , the DPRK delegation was quite numerous: according to various estimates, only more than 60 people took part in the events in Ulan-Ude, not counting the security
* * The Minister of Defense Kim Eun Chun, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kim Ge Gwan, the deputy prime minister of the government Kan Sok Chu, the deputy chairman of the State Committee of the Defense of Chan Song Taek and a number of party bonz, arrived with the leader of the DPRK. . Part of the retinue took part on a trip to Turku on the 23rd. The day before, the forces of the Ministry of Emergencies were erected by a special tent and a team of the best chefs from the Ulanuden restaurant “Cowboy” was discharged. On the way, the motorcade made a stop at the Haim pass, where a canopy and a blue -colored are a guideline specially for him (which, however, was quickly removed after that). The only one who managed to capture the reception on Khaim was the correspondent of the Moscow Bureau Nippon News Network Katano Koity. To capture the rare personnel of the North Korean leader, the Japanese journalist had to go to a small trick with a lowered wheel. The traffic police had no choice but to allow the correspondent to stay.
In Baikal, Kim Jong Ir and the accompanying people made a tour of the motor ship “Nikolai Troshchenko” and “Empire” specially ordered in Irkutsk, since there are no similar power and class of VIP subsidies in Buryatia. How much this desire to flaunt the guest for a poor Buryat treasury cost, one can only guess. Beauty ships, because of their size, could not approach the pier. Therefore, Kim Jong Ira and his retinue were delivered aboard on the less dimensional ship "Grozny" and the yacht "Azart".
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| The fourth wife Kim Jong Ira-47-year-old Kim OK (in the center of the picture) went on the trip on the trip. True, according to the observation of Korean experts, its role in the motorcade does not at all come down to caring for her husband. She is one of the invisible, but powerful persons behind Kim Jong Ira, and largely the smoothness of the transition of the authorities to the official successor, the third son of the leader of the 28-year-old Kim Chon Yunu, depends on her. Kim Jung E himself did not go to Russia, in fact, as before this year - to China. During that trip, many newspapers wrote that they saw his chubby silhouette at the train. However, it turned out that he stayed at home. There are assumptions that the father does not take the faithful son, because he believes that he still has to appear too early to appear on the diplomatic scene. Another version looks more plausible: the successor will simply guard Pyongyang in the absence of a father, who recently feared a military coup. |
Half in Sosnovy Bor on August 24 in a closed military town Sosnovy Bor, about 20 kilometers from Ulan-Ude, Kim Jong Ir met with Dmitry Medvedev. Numerous Russian and foreign journalists (for the most part of the North Korean and Japanese) were brought to the location of the unit in the morning. Since the meeting began only after lunch, they witnessed the many hours of rehearsal of the solemn ceremony of presenting the 11th separate airborne brigade of the Battle Banner deployed here. Part of the entertainment program had to be abandoned. Takewondo, for example, was removed, for example: on the eve of a training with combat swords, one of the participants was slightly injured. But both leaders did not refuse to look at the jumps of paratroopers. This happened after an official two-hour meeting, during which Medvedev actually received from Kim Jong Ira to the good to lay a 1100-kilometer gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea through the North Korean territory. Thanks to which the DPRK, which is in need of currency, will be able to earn $ 100 million annually in transit services. And the same money to pay with Russia on duty, which today, taking into account the old debts to the Soviet Union, is $ 11 billion - almost two times more than the DPRK owe its main guardian - China (about $ 6 billion). Judging by the official reports, Medvedev managed to bargain with diplomatic concessions: Kim Jong Iri solemnly promised to return his country to the table of six -way negotiations on the North Korean nuclear program, which the DPRK left the year before last. True, how many years Medvedev will have to wait for the promised - a question.
By the bypass home, Kim Jong Il, unexpectedly, decided to return through China for everyone, which he never did during his previous trips to Russia. According to the South Korean television channel YTN, the DPRK leader decided to visit Datsin, which is the end point of the Russian oil pipeline Skorodino - Datsin. Only as I decided to consult with Chinese comrades: how reliable and safe to deal with Russia in such subtle issues as oil and gas.
The first visit by Kim Jong Ira to Russia was held from July 26 to August 18, 2001. The leader drove by rail from Vladivostok to Moscow and St. Petersburg. His train stayed in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Khabarovsk and other Russian cities, paralyzing the Trans -Siberian movement.
For the second time, the DPRK leader came to us in August 2002-this was a four-day introductory visit to the Far East in order to study the economic policy of the region.
Jan Mu Chin, leading expert at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the University of Kennes (Seoul)
2012 in the DPRK will be anniversary - a centenary of the birth of the founder of the Kim Il Sen regime. By this date, as the North Korean leadership of their people promised, the DPRK will be "powerful and prosperous." The problem, however, is that the regime has no money - neither to feed their hungry citizens, nor the celebration of such a significant date. The economic curve in the DPRK sharply crawled down after South Korea turned away from the northern neighbor. Seoul stopped all help to the North due to the nuclear developments of Pyongyang, as well as after last year's sinking of the Corvette Chhonan and the shelling of the island of Yonphyndo. The only help from the outside came to August - the Americans regretted: the United States allocated emergency food assistance in the amount of $ 900 thousand for those injured from the July floods and August typhoon.
The first attempt to get funds - the May trip to China - Kim Jong Ira was not very successful: according to our data, he received much less than he expected. The 70-year-old leader made a new bet on Russia. The August visit here Kim Jong Ir attached particular importance. The efficiency of the North Korean media, with which they rushed to light the trip from the very first day, is simply amazing. Indeed, usually such information is strictly classified for security purposes: the leader is reported about all foreign trips after returning to his homeland. However, this time the central telegraph agency of Korea (Tsak) was quoted by Kim Jong Ira immediately after arriving at the Khasan border station. He said that "it is very glad to see the achievements of a diligent and resourceful Russian people and is very grateful to senior officials in Moscow and in the field for organizing the current visit." In Hassan, Kim Jong Ira was met with bread and salt.
The unusual openness of the visit is understandable: the DPRK wanted to show everyone that Pyongyang, in addition to China and the United States, has other countries that she can turn to for help. However, from Siberia, Kim returned no more satisfied than from China. He was remembered by the public debt, which, according to the Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergey Storchak, is $ 11 billion.
But what Russia is really interested in is in the involvement of Pyongyang into joint tripartite (with South Korea) projects that will help the DPRK earn funds in the transit of gas and railway compositions through its territory and thereby solve part of their economic problems. And Medvedev managed to do this. The first of the projects is the laying through the DPRK of the gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea. By the way, Seoul is also interested in the success of the project: we considered that, by purchasing a fifth of all natural gas imported into the country, we will reduce our costs by 30%. Another Russian idea, born back in 2000, is an accelerated modernization of the railway between the Russian border station of Hassan and the North Korean port of Radzhin on the East Sea, where a freight terminal will be built for organizing transit transportation with access to a network of Russian roads. Perhaps the meeting near the Buryat capital, where the Trans-Siberian Road and the Road leading to China intersect, will shift the project set aside due to the global crisis.
Irina Yu participated in the preparation of the material (Seoul)