North Koreas Kim Jong Un has brought with him his own portable toilet to Singapore ahead of the Tuesday summit with U.S. president Donald Trump.
President Trump and North Koreas Kim Jong Un are both in Singapore for their highly anticipated summit, the first of its kind between a U.S. president and a leader of North Korea.
While officials remain as to what exactly will come out of Tuesdays unprecedented discussions, Mr. Trump has stated that he wants to strike a deal to get the Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
South Korean news agency reported that when Kim arrived in Singapore on an Air China Boeing 747 and was accompanied by an IL-76 transport plane carrying food, his bullet-proof limousine and a mobile toilet.
Accordingly to Lee Yun-keol, who worked in a North Korean Guard Command unit before defecting to South Korea in 2005, thats par for the course.
Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels, says Lee Yun-keol.
The reason? They are protecting against a literal info dump.
The leaders excretions contain information about his health status so they cant be left behind, Lee Yun-keol explained.
Similar travel considerations are reportedly made whenever the North Korean leader conducts on-site inspections of military bases and state-run factories across the country.
In fact, according to the South Korean news agency Daily NK, there is a customised bathroom built into Kims convoy of vehicles at all times.
The restrooms are not only in Kim Jong Uns personal train but whatever small or midsize cars he is traveling with and even in special vehicles that are designed for mountainous terrain or snow, a source in South Pyongan Province familiar with Kims Escort Command told in 2015.
There are multiple vehicles within the convoy so that people cannot tell which one he is in, and there is a separate car that acts as his restroom.
So, in this respect at least, it seems this historic summit is no different than Kims other excursions.
He simply always uses a personal, highly guarded toilet in loo of public facilities.
Source: NAN