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Recently in another picture of kim jong il taken while greeting some dignitary, it showed a bunch of Ford F-350 trucks in the background.
If you do a search on the internet you'll find all sorts of info about his intermediaries/buyers all over the world that secure whatever he wanted. Pretty much everything he ate, owned, slept on, came in internationally and it was all the best stuff money could buy. He even had a rotating plethora of all the best hookers the world could offer.
An American who managed to go to NK on the Koryo tour took photos inside of the national Kim Jong Il museum or whatever they call it, which housed some of the "gifts" that Kim received from foreign leaders, businesspeople who wanted to do business in NK, etc. There were living room sets that looked like they came out of Rent-A-Center, alongside a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul Jabar, high-end stereo equipment spanning a few decades, and a spattering of curio going all up and down the gmaut.
I just had a thought on those Mercedes: what if they don't belong to North Korea? What if they were utilized by some visiting Chinese dignitaries? Or they could be North Korean, who knows? Very interesting.
They were probably bought from China since MB has a plant there in Bejing and NK and China have ties to each other.
I just saw a show last night on North Korea. How he dictated that everything had to be Korean made in country, and after he died you see this and hear of all the other things he had that we probably made. I didn't know of all the prison camps he kept people in, 23 of them I think with 50,000+ people in each one, people put there for doing almost nothing. Just say the wrong thing, or a hint of anything against the Gov. and you are sent there.
One guard that defected to SK was on the show talking, he was told to treat prisioners as non people. They can kill you at anytime for doing little or nothing. You get caught doing something, even minor, you and ALL your family and relatives go to prison with you, and you will die there. They treat people like this, yet the people go nuts for him when he dies.
Knowing about the camps etc.....the smart NK's are definitely weeping and carrying on....out of fear of going to those camps.
I will say though, I bet that the guys that built these things - on the UAW line as well as at the coachbuilder - had no idea that they would someday end up being shipped illegally across the globe, used in the funerals of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and used in parades in front of millions of oppressed people during the interceding three and a half decades.
I'd just have figured it'd spend a few years shuttling around some rich dude and then getting used in livery for ten years before being owned by a pimp/drug dealer or scrapped...
Right. If only they could talk. I imagine they didn't have many miles on them and were kept in nice garages, but still.
They were probably bought from China since MB has a plant there in Bejing and NK and China have ties to each other.
The regime has buyers in Europe that buys them 200 at a time and ships them back. jong il even had a few Maybachs and it's rumored his sons have some supercars.
Holy moley! That's a darn good catch! The taillight in that one picture looked a lot like a Lincoln Continental, though, didn't it? Or did they use the same taillight on the Mercury? I'm going on eBayMotors right now to check out '78 Mercurys!
I owned a 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis back in the day with a big block 460 cu. in. engine. That car was plush to the max with a cloud like ride but very hungry.
Kept that car until sometime in the 1990's when our son wrecked it going to our local college one fine day. Wife wanted to fix it but there was to much major damage. Our son walked away from the wreck without a scratch so the old Merc did it's job right to the end.
I can understand people being upset over the death of their leader but the NK reaction is WAY overboard, the crowds are all freaked out and even the announcer in the one video has a quivering voice, yes I know some of that may be an act.
So much for the NK isolation policy, use a 30 year old modified American car for official parades.
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