How? North Korean Leader Spotted Riding Around In Banned Maybach Limousines

Daimler, maker of top-end Mercedes-Maybach automobiles, is on the hot seat after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted scooting around in brand new armored limos at recent international summits.

Sales of luxury automobiles to the despotic regime are banned under a UN Security Council resolution passed in 2013, and Daimler does not count it as one of its customers. Still, the country’s leader travels in uncompromising Germanic style.

Kim is frequently seen riding in a previous-generation S-Class stretch limousine, usually flanked by a dozen panting bodyguards dressed in classic 1960s spy show garb. Those motorcades also contain a Maybach 62 — a vehicle that ceased production at the tail end of 2012.

PUGPROUD - 4/26/2019 11:29:15 AM

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And this is news why? Just one of the many favored luxuries despots buy on the backs of their people in the black market or directly by a wink of an eye and a bag full of cash.

Car4life1 - 4/26/2019 3:15:35 PM

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Maybach is King in Asia, I’ve never seen so many Maybachs in one place on a recent business trip to China, I mean its almost like how one used to see Lincoln Town Cars in NYC

CarCrazedinCali - 4/26/2019 3:34:27 PM

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Morally bankrupt leadership, expected behavior

malba2367 - 4/26/2019 4:58:07 PM

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How is this Daimlers fault? How difficult would it be to have someone in China buy a Maybach and then put it on a boat to North Korea...

mre30 - 4/27/2019 2:38:04 PM

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Perhaps the Maybach belongs to Dennis Rodman?