I don’t know why anyone would think that such a car was unavailable to the North Koreans. Everything is available on the black market. It’s just a matter of cost. Look at how insurgents get arms and Iran gets nuclear material.
If Fidel Castro wants to drive a 2011 Corvette he can surely get his hands on one although he probably wouldn’t do it., or at least be seen doing it.
The NK leaders obviously liked to live large at the expense of the people. Probably when they bought the Lincoln(s) it was, in their minds, the best available limousine. They never let ideology get in the way of their wants.
All that being said, the leadership of NK is loathsome in my mind.
I was, perhaps, referencing the North Korean dictator. However, if you wish to argue that he screwed with the South Koreans more than he perhaps ought, I’ll bow to your knowledge of Asian politics.
NK leaders consuming luxury goods in private is one thing. But using a US made luxury limousine for the very very public funeral procession for both father and son is a little weird considering the Juche principal on which their whole country is based.
Also, doesn’t the official propaganda of NK imply that everyone is starving everywhere else in the world and that NK is the most advanced country in the world? Seems hard for them to maintain that fiction while parading their leader in a US made car.
Do the NK commoners even know what a US car is? All information is controlled. Certainly, they are being told that NK fabricators specially built that car for Kim Il Shit. Anybody that cries for that asshole already has had their mind warped. What does the source of a limo matter?
South Korea is, technically, not formally a foreign country to North Korea. Great powers partitioned the country decades back. South Korea can be seen as the part of the country that the USA occupied to keep Kim Jong-il’s dad from overrunning the whole peninsula.
They’re still at war.
On reflection, you may be right. Jong-il didn’t run the war hot, he seems to have (mostly) left well enough alone. I withdraw my incredulousness.
