Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un might not be the best allies they make out to be after the North Korean leader’s chair was wiped ahead of a summit today.
A video showing the awkward scene where a North Korean security guard appears reluctant to let a Putin guard be the last man close to the chair before Kim sat in it.
It suggest Kim Jong Un might not trust Putin amid speculation he feared the high background radiation at Vostochny cosmodrome where the pair met.
Kim’s chair was also checked to ensure it would carry his heavy weight which is reportedly in excess of 20 st 6lbs.
He also refused to travel on a plane 948 miles from Vladivostok to the spaceport in Amur region on his first foreign visit since 2019.
Kim instead opted for a luxury armoured train on which he had travelled from Pyongyang.
This is because Russia’s skies are notoriously unsafe with one tourist plane crash landing this week.
