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Photos show luxury boat with 50m pool and water slides near Kim Jong…

NK Pro says satellite imagery shows the eighty-metre yacht, with dual twisting waterslides, was moved toward Kim's Wonsan mansion complex; the sea was available the whole time.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSatellite photos show a luxury yacht near Kim Jong Un's summer retreat at Wonsan, and Lola Cruz has been studying the pictures. Lola.

  2. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, I'm at a public pool tonight, because it is the closest thing to the evidence.

  3. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe yacht is eighty metres long, fifteen wide, and Korea Daily reports it carries a fifty-metre international standard swimming pool.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA pool. On a boat. In the sea.

  5. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIn twenty years of covering hard targets, I have never seen a commander surrounded by open water and choose to hold the line in a rectangle.

  6. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSatellite imagery from NK Pro shows it was moved toward his Wonsan mansion complex, and there are dual twisting waterslides.

  7. Odalys BrandvoldI swim laps here every Saturday, and the lanes are shorter than that. I'd pay a lot to know who checks the lane ropes out there.

  8. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentRegulation lanes, Hank. The ocean has none.

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