REPORT: Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong, both leaders’ have their poop collected on foreign trips

After a rare diplomatic meeting in Beijing between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, members of Kim’s security team were seen thoroughly cleaning the area where he had been seated — a reflection of Pyongyang’s extreme security protocols, according to a Kremlin reporter.

Video shared online shows aides scrubbing Kim’s chair, including the backrest and armrests, and removing personal items such as his drinking glass. The scene underscores North Korea’s longstanding efforts to prevent any physical trace of its leader from being left behind, Reuters reports.

This approach is consistent with Kim’s previous foreign visits. He is known to travel with his own toilet to avoid leaving behind waste that could be analyzed for health information by foreign intelligence agencies — whether adversaries or allies.

North Korea leadership expert Michael Madden told reporters that these procedures, which began under Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, are intended to safeguard the leader’s medical privacy. Even seemingly insignificant items — such as cigarette butts or strands of hair — are carefully collected and destroyed to prevent them from being used to glean health data. After Kim’s 2019 summit with then-U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi, his team reportedly spent hours sanitizing his hotel room, including removing the mattress.

Such meticulous measures reflect a broader concern within the regime about espionage and surveillance, even from friendly nations. Interestingly, similar practices have been reported around President Putin. During his summit with President Trump in Alaska last month, Putin’s security detail was seen carrying a suitcase believed to contain his bodily waste, in an apparent effort to prevent foreign entities from gathering health-related intelligence, according to NDTV.

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