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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly brought his own toilet to Singapore for his summit with President Trump.
The portable toilet was among a number of items that Kim packed for the historic meeting as part of a tightly planned visit, according to The Chosunilbo, one of South Korea's largest circulated newspapers.
The newspaper noted that North Korea dispatched an IL-76 transport plane that carried things such as food and a bullet-proof limousine, as well as a "portable toilet that will deny determined sewer divers insights into to the supreme leader's stools."
USA Today noted that the move appeared to be an attempt to preclude intelligence agencies from gleaning information on Kim's health.
The North Korean leader has dispatched portable toilets before when traveling to inspect military bases and state-run factories, and reportedly brought one to the border village of Panmunjom for his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April.
http://thehill.com/policy/international/391637-kim-jong-un-brought-his-own-toilet-to-summit-with-trump
Now Trump's going to want one.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)While I would not swear to the veracity of this story, HuFFPO chose to report it and I've not seen a SNOPE article debunking it.
Even Bushs crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bushs recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bushs visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House toilet security (TOILSEC), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bushs personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bushs security, the veil of secrecy extends over the presidents bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bushs feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bushs waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
In the past, similar operations were conducted against foreign leaders to determine their medical condition. However, these intelligence operations were directed against dictators in countries where even the medical conditions of the top political leaders were considered state secrets. The Israeli Mossad conducted one such operation against Syrian President Hafez Assad when he visited Amman, Jordan in Feb. 1999 for the funeral of King Hussein. The Mossad and its Jordanian counterpart installed a special toilet in Assads hotel room that led not to a pipe but to a specimen canister. Assad suffered from diabetes and cancer and the operation was designed to discover the actual medical condition of the ailing leader. During Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachevs visit to Washington in 1987, the CIA reportedly placed a special trap under a sewage tank to collect the Soviet leaders bodily waste for analysis. More recently, the CIA was reported to have collected waste samples from Ugandan President-dictator Yoweri Musevenis toilet when he visited Washington.
Even Bushs toilet paper was flown in from the U.S. Air Base at Ramstein, Germany. In addition, Bushs food was flown in from the United States and tested with special chemicals before he ate it. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was shot by a firing squad in 1989, was the last major European leader to constantly use a food tester. The last frequent state visitor to Vienna, who always relied on a food tester, was Adolf Hitler.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)If a poor person was convinced that there were "determined sewer divers" looking to steal his stool, we'd give said person a healthy dose of thorazine.
If a rich person or elite does it, well, it's a necessary expense that can not be spared.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)unc70
(6,121 posts)There is is a lot of merit in "protecting" feces from analyses. Consider the value of determining the real health status of Trump.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)all they have to do is swab Sean Hannity's nose.
bornfree17
(89 posts)For my liking. Just gross. Who cleans it?
DFW
(54,445 posts)He knows he's so full of shit, normal toilets can't handle his production.