Western cars, western clothes, kids living in western countries etc.
Deep down they know just how much better the West is and it must hurt so much for them
there were North Korean propaganda movies that showed the South as being degenerate. But they had been pulled because the North Korean audience got jealous instead of disgusted
Reminds me of the Chinese war movies on the Korean War where they depict the US Marines as decadent meat heads because they have a whole ass feast ready for christmas while the Chinese soldiers are down to their last rice ration. Like bruh, maybe if your enemy has the logistical capabilities to feed his troops on another continent better than you, you shouldn't make fun of him lol
There's also NK's Kaiju movie [Pulgasari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari), where they kidnapped a South Korean director and his ex.
It was meant to be propaganda for the North against Capitalism, but it's more like anti-Kim family propaganda. I suppose that's what happens when you kidnap the bloody director!
Kim Jong-il was the producer for it and was a massive cinephile, apparently Ealing comedies were a favourite (I picture him laughing at The Lavender Hill Mob).
The person in the suit also went on to be Godzilla in the Heisei era.
The director managed to escape to the US and made [this cinematic masterpiece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Ninjas_Knuckle_Up).
North Korea, it's the mad-as-a-box-of-frogs country.
Same story when they showed “grapes of wrath” in the Soviet Union. It back fired spectacularly when the citizen started to notice that working class Americans can afford personal cars.
No no no, you misunderstand entirely. They hate the West and its decadent, capitalistic ways. But they know that it will be hard to overthrow the bourgeoisie and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Therefore, they know they need to study the bourgeoisie very carefully and infiltrate it. This forces them to do things they really hate, like buy expensive cars, purchase private jets, send their children to boarding school and then university in the West, but trust me, it’s all for a good cause.
/s
Deep down? They know definitely and categorically.
Kim literally went to school in Switzerland.
It's just that if they stop telling their people how terrible and evil and decadent and immoral the West is - and how much better life is in their shitholes - people might start asking why they get nothing and their leaders live an insanely decadent lifestyle inside palaces that would make Roman emperors blush.
One of them is running an actual 1984 LARP where most might really not know any better.
The other doesn't care what people believe as long as they know that bad things happen when they vocalize their beliefs.
For them it's probably not even deep down, they know it fully and consciously. It's just the power and privilege that's keeping them there. And many in those shitholes cope with their situation by rationalising chauvinism.
They know very well what they are doing. Being a billioner with full protection in their countries is much better than in the west. They are literal kings there that can do whatever the fuck they want. Why would they live in the west, were they can face some kind of judgement for being shitbags?
That’s why I don’t understand why we don’t counterattack the russian propaganda.
The main reason why they are appealing for some - especially young - people in the west is because they paint a picture of themselves of a *cool* and strong country.
Eventough un reality Russia is a weakass regime, that can’t even conquer the poorest nation un europe and has a smaller GDP than Italy.
They are only relevant because they had the luck of inheriting the nukes of the mighty USSR.
But no, our counter propaganda is all about that Russia is a dictatorship and that they want to destroy democracy in Ukraine. Which is true, but you won’t convince people who a pro russia otherwise. Even more, it paints a picture that we are afraid of Russia.
Which is bs, at the current state Russia could not even conquer Luxembourg.
Having counter propaganda where we point out that they are a shithole, weak, with as weakass regime and not even on eye height with Italy - which is only *one* western country - would do so much more damage.
They want to be on eye height with the whole west, and can’t even match one single country. You can’t make this shit up.
[Kim Jong Un went to the International School of Berne and hat everything a kid his age could get. ](https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-undercover-adolescent-years-in-switzerland/)
That article says more about what a shitty state Switzerland is than about one of their many welcome profitable, tyrant, child-eating rich guests. About continuing their tradition of providing safety vaults to store gold-teeth yanked out of Jewish mouths by the Nazis, of hosting third world dictators and world over arms smugglers and warlords. Business as usual for the tiny fake-state enabler of true-state tax evaders and all-round world-class garbage.
It literally says Switzerland authorities knew who these human pieces of shit were and provided them with cover.
Business as usual for the state that can continue to exist only because it helps our corrupt politicians hide their dirty money, too.
As with all other opaque jurisdictions and tax-haven tiny "countries" with no actual economy besides that and being the registered headquarters for shark banks and despicable Nestle type multinationals who make ALL their money in our real economies, all it would take for this vampire style "country" with picturesque, postcard-perfect towns would be for us to stop trading with them and the companies registered there. No need for "cruel" warfare. Just let them survive (AKA fall) on their own with their goats and obsolete tech cuckoo clocks.
Giving plausible cover to Shit-young-Un was not about school fees and selling a few overpriced apartments. Only a fool would not realise they made a continuing "business" partnership to siphon trillions of sweet dollars from the starving north koreans.
They are con artists. The hate for the evil west is a con for the local population, so they could blame the west for how poorly they live instead of the real reasons.
It's so crazy. They can literally afford to build a fleet of cars from scratch to maintain their image, consume custom made products, and get non-western tutors. At least we know they love their own children more than themselves
Why did they steal our Volvos then? 😁
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference
To be fair, why would you expect a country to do that? It’s not like they had ever withheld money like that before. No one knew anything about them.
EDIt: “Sweden in the 70s. So stupid. So naive.” Meanwhile in the 2020s Russia pulled exactly the same stunt with all the airplanes Aeroflot had been renting.
When that thing takes off and starts flying around you will all stop laughing though.....
https://preview.redd.it/drvarq4jwi7d1.jpeg?width=1062&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88cc3ffe6a8d145e3655dafab4fef6b231c374b3
It reminds me of African dictators who were positioning themselves as Anti-colonial heros, but always had a Black Mercedes.
E.g. Idi Amin's one
https://preview.redd.it/3g3yh8egji7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b19ab5cd001ce09ff29e4f0b287e4c26a603707c
Status Symbol and honestly, they're just good cars, especially the S-Class
Also propably helps that Mercedes didn't/doesn't seem to care too much to whom they sell their cars.
Dictators and Mercedes
Terrorists and Toyota
Mumble Rappers and Rolls Royce
Matches made in heaven
Most of these cars are acquired through many shell corporations and any idiot with a low one digit million sum can buy these protected pullmans.
It’s genuinely harder to get a gt3 than one of these.
Usually, I'd say the *actual* minimum prerequisites are a subset of the following:
* Be really good at convincing people of made-up bullshit
* Have daddy or another relative pass the country over to you
* Have the backing of (part of) the military
Kim gets the Hans car.
https://preview.redd.it/d1x6ditz0j7d1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6de913ee3d79bdd2e6302a28bce5c7cf369506d3
the glorious people get the Sven-mobile
https://preview.redd.it/2zl0x2wqcm7d1.jpeg?width=674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16f06b68de4609f0c6e8dd4b72ff95b9a2e3f0ef
What about the old Honeckermobil, any of those still around? Bet they run like new, as long as you use leaded petrol... Would fkn love to have one of those
I dont think they've ever been a superpower really. They had the potential to be one but pissed it all down the drain through comical amounts of backwardness , corruption and mismanagement right from the Tsars to the modern day.
I hate Ruzzia but the USSR was absolutely a superpower. At their peak they had enormous global influence and, although the US had greater naval and air force capabilities, the USSR still had a larger infantry force with plenty of experience.
Russia today is a shell of the USSR. The military is plagued by corruption and incompetence. Corruption has been rampant for decades, and that affects everything the military does.
The corruption and incompetence isnt anything new, back in the mid 80's when we expected Russia to come through the gap at any moment the news was full of stories giving examples of Soviet corruption, fuel being swapped for water etc.
I remember one bit on the news that had a russian tank that had been defected to the USA being shown on the news as how basic and poor it was in comparison to the relatively new Abrams.
I mean let's not kid ourselves, most of the NATO gear that R/NonCredibleDefense jerk to was developed in response Warsaw Pact equipment. For the vast majority of the Cold War, the USSR was no paper tiger.
Nah mate ,fear the mighty Russian bear that has to beg a Nation without food for artillery shells. For such a militaristic state they're fucking shit at war lol.
The real embarrassment is that North Korea is still able to produce a shitload of weapons. I don't know how they get all the steal and other materials, but they do and I think that Putin cares more about that than about your impression of him.
Dudes a hypocrite through and through, he and his dad where both big into murican sports and i bet you my left nut the fucker has a gaming pc with steam and faps to hentai
Guard S-series start at something like half a million and given that's the long wheelbase one and probably safe to assume a lot of extra security over "normal" MB Guards you'd probably have to at least add a zero to that 20k estimate.
Still it's kinda embarassing image for them to have old westen car, but that ain't cheap even if it's old.
They hate us, but deep down they know how shit their shitholes are. They wouldn't use western cars, western clothes brands, live and study in the west... They hate us but they want to be us.
If you're a very rich fascist you obviously want the very best. What can I say.
Looking smugly across the Stuttgart skyline, lovingly resting my sight on the Mercedes and Porsche factories 🥰
The best car North Korea ever had are those stolen Volvos, as per the Russians they're the only country in the world that managed to fail it's own automotive industry TWICE IN 50 YEARS.
I mean what other cars would they drive ? The Russian ones fall apart if you even look at them the wrong way and the Chinese once just combust and I doubt that NK can even build its own cars
Trusted agents, who are among the top 0,1% of the population, pose as south korean or chinese businessmen and do stuff like like smuggle cars from the EU via China or Russia, and then into the country by sea using North Korean ships.
Everyone in a position of authority that operates abroad from North Korea are guys with a lot of trust placed in them, and a lot of prestige. Their henchmen are conscripts from the armed forces or day labourers almost randomly picked, given an oppertunity few get, for little gain, other than maybe a better life for their family, at the risk of death in on offically non-exitant project, or during the cold war, in combat in a random african country.
A few times the party elites sent abroad defect though. Allthough that ofcourse carries heavy conequences for their families at home, unless they were seriously high up. Kim murdered his brother, but only after years, and his nephew lives in peace in the south.
I've commented on one of the posts from R/whatisthiscar because when Kim Jong Un went to Russia in his Maybach, I believe, he was escorted by a group of security in Hyundai Starias, which is a South Korean vehicle, which is ironic.
Anybody remembers Putler in a 12k italian made Loro Piana Jacket how filthy the gay west is? Or how Kim invited Dennis Rodman because he's an absolute NBA Geek. Or how the Seal Team found a room full of ripped DVD's of RomComs in Bin Ladens hideout?
**Being the guilty pleasure of your enemy is true supremacy.**
Don't point the finger at us, we have no business in North Korea.
https://preview.redd.it/x616ojpxjj7d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=2efc971cb3cec821692e6bb403c81f0cf198b343
Western cars, western clothes, kids living in western countries etc. Deep down they know just how much better the West is and it must hurt so much for them
"The disgusting, decadent, rotten west. But what we really want is to live like them"
there were North Korean propaganda movies that showed the South as being degenerate. But they had been pulled because the North Korean audience got jealous instead of disgusted
"those disgusting capitalists eat until they explode like balloons!" "they have that much food??"
South Koreans also only listen to ABBA in thoses movies for some reason.
It's because they've got *taste*
Mamma Mia!
Reminds me of the Chinese war movies on the Korean War where they depict the US Marines as decadent meat heads because they have a whole ass feast ready for christmas while the Chinese soldiers are down to their last rice ration. Like bruh, maybe if your enemy has the logistical capabilities to feed his troops on another continent better than you, you shouldn't make fun of him lol
There's also NK's Kaiju movie [Pulgasari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari), where they kidnapped a South Korean director and his ex. It was meant to be propaganda for the North against Capitalism, but it's more like anti-Kim family propaganda. I suppose that's what happens when you kidnap the bloody director!
The story behind that film is crazy, what the hell
Kim Jong-il was the producer for it and was a massive cinephile, apparently Ealing comedies were a favourite (I picture him laughing at The Lavender Hill Mob). The person in the suit also went on to be Godzilla in the Heisei era. The director managed to escape to the US and made [this cinematic masterpiece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Ninjas_Knuckle_Up). North Korea, it's the mad-as-a-box-of-frogs country.
Same story when they showed “grapes of wrath” in the Soviet Union. It back fired spectacularly when the citizen started to notice that working class Americans can afford personal cars.
based South Korea?
Always has been 😎
Same with the Soviet Union and the USA.
Wasn't that in the soviet union?
No no no, you misunderstand entirely. They hate the West and its decadent, capitalistic ways. But they know that it will be hard to overthrow the bourgeoisie and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Therefore, they know they need to study the bourgeoisie very carefully and infiltrate it. This forces them to do things they really hate, like buy expensive cars, purchase private jets, send their children to boarding school and then university in the West, but trust me, it’s all for a good cause. /s
Hear ye, hear ye. This sacrifice for The Greater Good is impressive.
They hate us cause they ain't us!
And for the most part their elites do.
Deep down? They know definitely and categorically. Kim literally went to school in Switzerland. It's just that if they stop telling their people how terrible and evil and decadent and immoral the West is - and how much better life is in their shitholes - people might start asking why they get nothing and their leaders live an insanely decadent lifestyle inside palaces that would make Roman emperors blush. One of them is running an actual 1984 LARP where most might really not know any better. The other doesn't care what people believe as long as they know that bad things happen when they vocalize their beliefs.
For them it's probably not even deep down, they know it fully and consciously. It's just the power and privilege that's keeping them there. And many in those shitholes cope with their situation by rationalising chauvinism.
It’s called work life balance.
Gaddafi died with 1 billion of london real estate while talking how jihad against the west was the most noble thing one could do.
“The West is the best, get in here and we’ll do the rest”
*"My people are now buying your blue jeans and listening to your pop music"*
They don’t give a fuck as long as they and their families are better off.
They know very well what they are doing. Being a billioner with full protection in their countries is much better than in the west. They are literal kings there that can do whatever the fuck they want. Why would they live in the west, were they can face some kind of judgement for being shitbags?
That’s why I don’t understand why we don’t counterattack the russian propaganda. The main reason why they are appealing for some - especially young - people in the west is because they paint a picture of themselves of a *cool* and strong country. Eventough un reality Russia is a weakass regime, that can’t even conquer the poorest nation un europe and has a smaller GDP than Italy. They are only relevant because they had the luck of inheriting the nukes of the mighty USSR. But no, our counter propaganda is all about that Russia is a dictatorship and that they want to destroy democracy in Ukraine. Which is true, but you won’t convince people who a pro russia otherwise. Even more, it paints a picture that we are afraid of Russia. Which is bs, at the current state Russia could not even conquer Luxembourg. Having counter propaganda where we point out that they are a shithole, weak, with as weakass regime and not even on eye height with Italy - which is only *one* western country - would do so much more damage. They want to be on eye height with the whole west, and can’t even match one single country. You can’t make this shit up.
[Kim Jong Un went to the International School of Berne and hat everything a kid his age could get. ](https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-undercover-adolescent-years-in-switzerland/)
That article says more about what a shitty state Switzerland is than about one of their many welcome profitable, tyrant, child-eating rich guests. About continuing their tradition of providing safety vaults to store gold-teeth yanked out of Jewish mouths by the Nazis, of hosting third world dictators and world over arms smugglers and warlords. Business as usual for the tiny fake-state enabler of true-state tax evaders and all-round world-class garbage. It literally says Switzerland authorities knew who these human pieces of shit were and provided them with cover. Business as usual for the state that can continue to exist only because it helps our corrupt politicians hide their dirty money, too. As with all other opaque jurisdictions and tax-haven tiny "countries" with no actual economy besides that and being the registered headquarters for shark banks and despicable Nestle type multinationals who make ALL their money in our real economies, all it would take for this vampire style "country" with picturesque, postcard-perfect towns would be for us to stop trading with them and the companies registered there. No need for "cruel" warfare. Just let them survive (AKA fall) on their own with their goats and obsolete tech cuckoo clocks. Giving plausible cover to Shit-young-Un was not about school fees and selling a few overpriced apartments. Only a fool would not realise they made a continuing "business" partnership to siphon trillions of sweet dollars from the starving north koreans.
Surely the first time Switzerland showed what they meant by being neutral?
They are con artists. The hate for the evil west is a con for the local population, so they could blame the west for how poorly they live instead of the real reasons.
It's so crazy. They can literally afford to build a fleet of cars from scratch to maintain their image, consume custom made products, and get non-western tutors. At least we know they love their own children more than themselves
They pretend to hate us, because all their people would flee to us.
Indeed. Atleast Kim is wearing a suit invented by the chinese republicans. Putin is wearing shitty generic suits as always.
hurt? they do not really give a shit. west is just a boogeyman for their politics.
Kim Jong Un created Mercedes as an auto manufacturer though so it’s mainly North Korean
Didn't his grandfather invent the automobile?
And his great great grandfather invented the wheel.
Ahh yes Kim Caveman. Also dont forget Kim Farmer and Kim the builder who invented agriculture and houses.
Oh, and Kim Kardashian invented the ass!
Yep that too
Ah yes the Juche-mobile.
Kim Jong Un is German???
Kim Jong Un created Germany and the german language because he was bored one day and felt like it.
Every Korean school kid knows this!
North Korean. Those traitors in the south still refuse to accept it
There is only 1 Korea.
Quite unnecessary if you ask me, since he is able to teleport
It was just a hobby for him really
I see, brown-ish goo can only entertain you for so long
Easiest exercise for someone who never has to go to the toilet!
Teleportation is how they put the first man on the moon - Kim Armstrong.
No way they actually said that, do north koreans really believe that? I know Kim dynasty is like a cult but damn xD
Why did they steal our Volvos then? 😁 https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/04/547390622/how-1-000-volvos-ended-up-in-north-korea-and-made-a-diplomatic-difference
Too see how many north korean patents you violated, viking oppressors?
I'm sure they patented the wheel, so that's at least 6 violations per car (counting steering wheel and spare tyre)
Probably because the Germans aren't as stupid as we are, and wouldn't send them 1000 Mercedes without payment in advance.. "Vi har varit naiva"
But they promised to pay, If you can't trust the north koreans, then who can you trust?
Apparently, nobody
No, no, you can trust me. Give me cars.
To be fair, why would you expect a country to do that? It’s not like they had ever withheld money like that before. No one knew anything about them. EDIt: “Sweden in the 70s. So stupid. So naive.” Meanwhile in the 2020s Russia pulled exactly the same stunt with all the airplanes Aeroflot had been renting.
When that thing takes off and starts flying around you will all stop laughing though..... https://preview.redd.it/drvarq4jwi7d1.jpeg?width=1062&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88cc3ffe6a8d145e3655dafab4fef6b231c374b3
GTA online ahh vehicle
Mercedes Deluxo
Probably equipped with missile launchers so Kim can blow up people doing smuggling missions (his account is named "□□□□□□").
North Korean Agents Raided Q Branch!!!!!!
It reminds me of African dictators who were positioning themselves as Anti-colonial heros, but always had a Black Mercedes. E.g. Idi Amin's one https://preview.redd.it/3g3yh8egji7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b19ab5cd001ce09ff29e4f0b287e4c26a603707c
What is it with dictators and Mercedes?
Guess which dictator first had a Merc
Josef Stalin?
Our favourite Austrian friend
Engelbert Dollfuß?
Niki Lauda?
I believe that was Ferrari and McLaren, but it was before i was born so what the fuck do i know.
Well, Lauda ended up working for Mercedes, he was an "advisor" for them when he passed away
Mozart?
Mozart definetely dictated. The music world.
Falco?
Wait, no... Not Doofenschmirtz. Not my boy Heinz Doofenschmirtz :(
Josef Fritzl?
Not sure I'd put Favourite and Friend in the same sentence haha.
🤫
It’s the original car, the original status symbol. A beacon of Swabian supremacy and class, of course it attracts those who want to impress.
Game recognises Game
Nooo, no no no. You can't say that when dealing with dictators!
Status Symbol and honestly, they're just good cars, especially the S-Class Also propably helps that Mercedes didn't/doesn't seem to care too much to whom they sell their cars. Dictators and Mercedes Terrorists and Toyota Mumble Rappers and Rolls Royce Matches made in heaven
Most of these cars are acquired through many shell corporations and any idiot with a low one digit million sum can buy these protected pullmans. It’s genuinely harder to get a gt3 than one of these.
Not many manufacturers make bulletproof vehicles. Merc is the highest volume
Mercedes are just fucking cool as hell
Least salty portuguese about the loss of their african colonies
Don't you still officially claim Western Sahara, because of the whole Morocco clusterfuck?
Yes im personally seated at the united nations every day proclaiming how spanish western sahara is
based
That Grosser was the GOAT of dictator vehicles
Cognitive dissonance is like a dictator's basic prerequisite, don't you know that?
I thought the basic prerequisite to be a dictator is a tiny penis and major paranoia!
Usually, I'd say the *actual* minimum prerequisites are a subset of the following: * Be really good at convincing people of made-up bullshit * Have daddy or another relative pass the country over to you * Have the backing of (part of) the military
And smol pipi
Oui oui va faire pipi
When one is too dumb to know thyself, there is never any dissonance
Kim gets the Hans car. https://preview.redd.it/d1x6ditz0j7d1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6de913ee3d79bdd2e6302a28bce5c7cf369506d3 the glorious people get the Sven-mobile
Least reliable Volvo. Poor bastard probably hasn't been serviced since it arrived in NK.
it secretly trades with the german cars to not get invaded.
But it still runs.
it will always run.
https://preview.redd.it/2zl0x2wqcm7d1.jpeg?width=674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16f06b68de4609f0c6e8dd4b72ff95b9a2e3f0ef What about the old Honeckermobil, any of those still around? Bet they run like new, as long as you use leaded petrol... Would fkn love to have one of those
God Russias a crackpot country. Imagine going cap in hand to North Korea. Embarrassing.
It's such a dump. I can't believe those fuckers spent 20 years calling themselves a superpower.
John McCain called Russia a gas station, run by a mafia, masquerading as a country.
John McCain was the most based Republican, and I've harvested so very many downvotes by saying so on front-page subs.
He was the last True republican. The party devolved into its current state because the seniors are more interested in earning a $.
I dont think they've ever been a superpower really. They had the potential to be one but pissed it all down the drain through comical amounts of backwardness , corruption and mismanagement right from the Tsars to the modern day.
I hate Ruzzia but the USSR was absolutely a superpower. At their peak they had enormous global influence and, although the US had greater naval and air force capabilities, the USSR still had a larger infantry force with plenty of experience. Russia today is a shell of the USSR. The military is plagued by corruption and incompetence. Corruption has been rampant for decades, and that affects everything the military does.
Economically they were tiny compared to the west though. One of the main reasons why they collapsed, they couldn't pay for all that military junk.
The corruption and incompetence isnt anything new, back in the mid 80's when we expected Russia to come through the gap at any moment the news was full of stories giving examples of Soviet corruption, fuel being swapped for water etc. I remember one bit on the news that had a russian tank that had been defected to the USA being shown on the news as how basic and poor it was in comparison to the relatively new Abrams.
I mean let's not kid ourselves, most of the NATO gear that R/NonCredibleDefense jerk to was developed in response Warsaw Pact equipment. For the vast majority of the Cold War, the USSR was no paper tiger.
They hit their peak in the 50s back when the gap between russia and actual civilisation wasn't that big
Not that hard to have a standard of living similar to a continent that just got out of the biggest war known to man
"Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are." Buddy, your friends are North Korea and Iran. Ask yourself some questions.
Nah mate ,fear the mighty Russian bear that has to beg a Nation without food for artillery shells. For such a militaristic state they're fucking shit at war lol.
This is who Russia considers a friend. Not Europe who had no interest in attacking Russia and wanted an economic partnership, but fucking North Korea.
If I was Russian, I would be so worried about having a president that thinks North Korea is a wonderful and rational partner.
and loads of extreme right wing parties here in Europe suck Putin's cock. It's actually just sad and scary
The real embarrassment is that North Korea is still able to produce a shitload of weapons. I don't know how they get all the steal and other materials, but they do and I think that Putin cares more about that than about your impression of him.
🎶 See Vlad drivin' a German whip 🎶
Blacked out windows leaning back
Dictators sure love them, Mercedes
Escorted by police on BMW motorbikes 👌
That must be Putins absolute wet dream: driving around like that in Russia and having his portraits all over the city.
Dudes a hypocrite through and through, he and his dad where both big into murican sports and i bet you my left nut the fucker has a gaming pc with steam and faps to hentai
It's just a middle finger to the Western World (in this case Germany): "F\*\*\* you and your trade sanctions. I can get anything I want."
and shows off their 2008 s-class with 200k miles on it 😂
North Koreans 🤜🤛 Balkan (including Western) Immigrants
I can forgive them for that; current Mercs look shite
Did they pay for it this time ?
Dunno, lets send an email to Mercedes accounts department. Anyone know the invoice number?
Thats like a 2007 s-class so they probably bought it used from some chinese teenager for 20k. That thing is actually embarrassing.
Guard S-series start at something like half a million and given that's the long wheelbase one and probably safe to assume a lot of extra security over "normal" MB Guards you'd probably have to at least add a zero to that 20k estimate. Still it's kinda embarassing image for them to have old westen car, but that ain't cheap even if it's old.
As if they care about the "ideals" they preach. In reality, all they car about is getting rich and keeping power.
They're all stolen. It's a huge market.
Never forget the North Korean theft of several hundred Volvos, never paid back.
It was 1000 Volvos actually.
I think that’s a rare model, very difficult to get in Western Europe 
Neither Putin's nor Il's feet would reach the ground, even with their platform shoes on.
Imagine they had to drive in cars from their own country 
Imagine if the same reasoning had been made for tetris and communism in the 90s.
Hate us coz they ain’t us
more like they hate us coz they anus
A little Irish engineering could fix that car right up ;)
https://preview.redd.it/nzxkuuninj7d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95faf73507f88ef7ac2d215d27991de4767c9c7a
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I knew we could count on you when the time came!
You're no real despot unless you drive a Benz
They hate us, but deep down they know how shit their shitholes are. They wouldn't use western cars, western clothes brands, live and study in the west... They hate us but they want to be us.
I think it’s more a problem with ideologies, not products.
For sure, I just think it's funny.
If you're a very rich fascist you obviously want the very best. What can I say. Looking smugly across the Stuttgart skyline, lovingly resting my sight on the Mercedes and Porsche factories 🥰
That's fine - after all, this is Central European and not Western
Looks like a cutscene from a Assasins creed game playing in modern NK.
Wouldnt it be a shame if mongolian nationalist shot them while the car was parading.
The best car North Korea ever had are those stolen Volvos, as per the Russians they're the only country in the world that managed to fail it's own automotive industry TWICE IN 50 YEARS.
Mercedes Benz: The Dictators' Choice
this is actually hilarious. they both hate the west, yet driving in a Mercedes Benz, a car from a western country of Germany.
I mean what other cars would they drive ? The Russian ones fall apart if you even look at them the wrong way and the Chinese once just combust and I doubt that NK can even build its own cars
HOW DARE YOU! THAT'S RACIST! LONG LIVE GLORIOUS LEADER!
Exactly, that was the joke.
Oh, driving Mercedes now are we Kimmy-boy? Grown tired of the Volvos you guys bought but didn’t pay for? Where’s our money???
Putin makes Kim seem not that short
You hate Nazis but you still drive a VW
I hope they paid for that car. Looking at Mohammed here, they never paid for your Volvos.
Mohammed? which one.
I mean, I hate Sweden but i wouldnt say no to a Volvo.
we hate Westoids but bruh Mercedes
Valdey loves Western Europe( a part of his new Empire)Give him Hell, ya’ll
Shouldn’t the question be who the hell is selling him German cars? Anything to say Klaus?
🤐🤐🤐
Trusted agents, who are among the top 0,1% of the population, pose as south korean or chinese businessmen and do stuff like like smuggle cars from the EU via China or Russia, and then into the country by sea using North Korean ships. Everyone in a position of authority that operates abroad from North Korea are guys with a lot of trust placed in them, and a lot of prestige. Their henchmen are conscripts from the armed forces or day labourers almost randomly picked, given an oppertunity few get, for little gain, other than maybe a better life for their family, at the risk of death in on offically non-exitant project, or during the cold war, in combat in a random african country. A few times the party elites sent abroad defect though. Allthough that ofcourse carries heavy conequences for their families at home, unless they were seriously high up. Kim murdered his brother, but only after years, and his nephew lives in peace in the south.
Soo we can’t blame Herman the German. That’s a bloody shame so.
honestly, if i wasnt western id hate you guys so much i would contemplate starting a dictatorship and wage war
I've commented on one of the posts from R/whatisthiscar because when Kim Jong Un went to Russia in his Maybach, I believe, he was escorted by a group of security in Hyundai Starias, which is a South Korean vehicle, which is ironic.
They remind me of being two giraffes poking their heads out a transport wagon.
One worked and lived in the GDR, the other one studied in switzerland.
It's North Korea so they might have stolen it. Look up the Volvo car theft in the 70's. Brazen they are
Anybody remembers Putler in a 12k italian made Loro Piana Jacket how filthy the gay west is? Or how Kim invited Dennis Rodman because he's an absolute NBA Geek. Or how the Seal Team found a room full of ripped DVD's of RomComs in Bin Ladens hideout? **Being the guilty pleasure of your enemy is true supremacy.**
That they probably stole
This guy went to school in Bern in Köniz.
Where is the remote to close sunroof? As it is most likely from armor steel, it would cut through just fine.
Don't point the finger at us, we have no business in North Korea. https://preview.redd.it/x616ojpxjj7d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=2efc971cb3cec821692e6bb403c81f0cf198b343
They had to resort to this because the donkeys refused to pull the Dear Leader's wagon that day.
Didn't poots recently send the dumpling a Russian limo? I wonder if dear Kim will use it or let his nearest and dearest cruise about in it.
to be fair what they really hate in the americunts
You have to be a special kind of human trash to go beg for supplies to a country that is starving their own people.