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What luxury bag is Kim Jong-un carrying? His female secretary bag is also a hot topic

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Reporter Kwon Soo-hyun = North Korean high-ranking female officials who accompanied Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the North Korean National Defense Commission, on his visit to Russia, were caught carrying bags from foreign luxury brands, according to the North Korean specialist media NK News on the 18th (local time).
Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo-jong, Deputy Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea (left), Choi Sun-hee, Minister of Foreign Affairs (center), and Hyun Song-wol, Deputy Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea (right), were seen carrying bags during their visit to a combat aircraft factory in Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the 15th, when Kim Jong-un visited Russia. [Korean Central News Agency, provided by NK News. Resale and DB prohibited]

It is pointed out that although North Korea has cracked down on foreign expensive and luxury goods as ‘bourgeois culture’ and ‘anti-socialist behavior’, top officials including Chairman Kim still show their ‘love for luxury goods’.

NK News reported that a photo from the Korean Central News Agency on the 16th confirmed that the bag carried by North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sun-hee is a rare product from the Italian luxury brand Gucci.

The photo captured the appearance of Choi Sun-hee, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials during Kim Jong-un’s visit to the Komsomolsk-na-Amure glass factory in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the 15th.

The media explained that the bag carried by Choi Sun-hee is made of ostrich leather, which is now discontinued, but is being traded for $10,000 (approximately 13.2 million won) on an Icelandic second-hand goods trading website.

NK News quoted a report by Yonhap News Agency and reported that Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un’s sister, also appeared carrying a black ‘Lady Dior’ handbag from the French luxury brand Christian Dior during her visit to the fighter aircraft factory.

The bag is made of calf leather and is currently sold for $7,000 (approximately 9.25 million won) on the Christian Dior website, the media added.

However, among the entourage, Hyun Song-wol, Deputy Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, was seen carrying a cheap-looking bag that appears to be of Chinese origin, and NK News reported that the bag is being sold for $8 (approximately 10,000 won) on a Chinese website.

During Kim Jong-un’s visit to a Russian combat aircraft production factory, Kim Yo-jong and the entourage (Seoul=Yonhap News) – Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the North Korean National Defense Commission, visited the glass factory of the Komsomolsk-na-Amure fighter aircraft in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the 15th, according to the Korean Central News Agency’s report on the 16th. Kim Yo-jong, Deputy Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea (third from the right), is seen carrying a bag that is presumed to be a luxury brand product.

For several years, North Korea has designated foreign luxury brand products as “weapons used by capitalist countries to destroy North Korea” and has been cracking down on them.

In addition, according to UN Security Council Resolution 1718, adopted in response to North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006, the export of luxury goods to North Korea is prohibited.

However, it has been repeatedly captured that Chairman Kim carries a luxury watch from the Swiss brand IWC, and his wife Ri Sol-ju and daughter Kim Ju-ae have been seen wearing Dior handbags and coats.

Furthermore, NK News reported that Kim Choi Sun-hee was seen carrying a Bulgari bag during a meeting with a Chinese delegation that visited North Korea in July.

The media pointed out that during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 10 million North Korean residents suffered from hunger and malnutrition, citing a UN report, and highlighted the extreme disparity in living standards between the top officials and the general population in North Korea.

Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, Deputy Director of the Ditchley Foundation’s Asia Leadership Centre in Australia, said, “It is not uncommon for the elite class in that country to wear designer products that ordinary citizens cannot afford, but (in the case of North Korea) it reminds us of the enormous gap between the super elites and the average North Korean’s life.”

During Kim Jong-un’s visit to a Russian combat aircraft production factory, Kim Jong-un and the entourage (Pyongyang, Korean Central News Agency=Yonhap News) – Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the North Korean National Defense Commission, visited the glass factory of the Komsomolsk-na-Amure fighter aircraft in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the 15th, according to the Korean Central News Agency’s report on the 16th. NK News, a North Korean specialist media outlet in the United States, reported that the bag carried by Choi Sun-hee, the third person from the right in the photo, is a Gucci product from Italy.
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