Paranoid Kim’s 3 decoys to avoid mid-air assassination
Kim Jong-un upstaged Donald trump’s arrival in Singapore yesterday for their historic talks by dispatching two decoy flights to hide his own movements.
the north Korean leader, who is terrified of being assassinated, flew on an Air China plane – and sent two other aircraft on the same route.
they included his personal jet, an ageing russian ilyushin-62, in what was clearly intended as a ruse to convince any potential aggressors that he was on board.
A third plane left Pyongyang’s international airport at roughly the same time, apparently serving as a second decoy in the elaborate security operation.
in a further, third decoy, according to flight tracking experts, the Air China Boeing 747 carrying the paranoid despot took off using flight number CA122, a standard designation for the airline’s route from Pyongyang to Beijing, China.
But in midair, it changed its call sign – the unique identifier assigned to aircraft – to CA061 and headed south towards Singapore.
Kim was driven into the city in a convoy of more than 20 vehicles including an ambulance.
Mr trump arrived five hours later for a meeting scheduled for tomorrow to discuss north Korea’s nuclear missiles programme.
their ‘burger diplomacy’ talks – both love fast food and may hold discussions over a hamburger lunch – follow fraught weeks in which both sides have threatened to walk away from negotiations.
However, the two leaders will meet at a luxury resort on the secluded island of Sentosa, a former pirate base and Japanese Second world war Pow camp once known as the island of Death after its inhabitants were almost wiped out by disease.
experts say Kim is unlikely to agree to washington’s demands that he destroy his entire nuclear weapons programme.
Mr trump, who once derided him as ‘little rocket Man’, said on his arrival in Singapore that he felt ‘very good’ about the meeting.
He claimed he would rely on his intuition to gauge Kim’s intennorth tions, and would know ‘within the first minute’ whether he was taking their summit seriously, adding that he would use ‘my touch, my feel... that’s what i do’.
According to a CiA report, Kim has no intention of giving up his nuclear weapons imminently, but might agree to the introduction of US burger chains.
A list of potential concessions by Korea includes Kim agreeing to the opening of a western hamburger franchise in Pyongyang as a sign of goodwill.
Mr trump said during his election campaign that he would be happy to sit down with Kim for talks over burgers.
A senior aide to South Korean president Moon Jae-in said Pyongyang officials had told him they would view US investments in north Korea as a way to guarantee the nation’s security.
the aide suggested a branch of McDonald’s and a trump-branded hotel could be among the first US firms in the north Korean capital.
So-called fast-food diplomacy was famously used in the Soviet Union, where crowds queued in 1990 to eat at its first McDonald’s.
US-style fast food has already proved a success in Pyongyang, where Singaporean businessman Patrick Soh was allowed to open a branch of the American chain waffletown in 2008.
‘Burger diplomacy’