Kim’s Japanese car blitz
‘North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered the seizure of all Japanese-made cars in the communist country after he spotted a broken-down model blocking a road, a press report said today.
The order came on January 1 when Kim visited the embalmed body of the North’s founding leader Kim Il-sung, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said, in a sign of his growing discontent with Japan’s hardline stance on North Korea. [..]
It remains to be seen whether North Korean authorities will be able to implement the order fully, because most of the cars operating in the country are Japanese, Yonhap said.’
