Aides were filmed wiping down every surface touched by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week in the latest demonstration of the secretive state’s strict measures to guard against espionage.
A video shared on Telegram by Russian journalist Alexander Yunashev showed two staffers polishing the backrest and armrests of Mr Kim’s chair, cleaning a side table and carrying away his glass on a tray. “After the negotiations were over, the staff accompanying the head of the DPRK carefully destroyed all traces of Kim’s presence,” Mr Yunashev said, using the abbreviation for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
