“Honestly, I didn’t know there was a Russian luxury car,” the US State Department spokesman quipped when asked by a reporter about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “I hope Kim gets a bail extension,” added Matthew Miller.

North Korea’s KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un had received a Russian-made car gifted to him by the Kremlin strongman, without specifying its model and features. The North Korean leader’s sister “conveyed Kim Jong Un’s thanks to Putin,” stressing that the gift demonstrates the two leaders’ special relationship on a personal level.

Kim reportedly maintains a collection of luxury vehicles that he has smuggled into his country. In September, during his visit to a space center in the Russian Far East, he had shown great interest in Putin’s Aurus Senat presidential limousine.

Joking with reporters, the State Department spokesman said on Wednesday: “I’m not sure that if I was going to buy a luxury car, I would look in Russia, even if there wasn’t the issue of sanctions.”

“However, resolutions of the UN Security Council require all member states to ban the supply of both transport vehicles and luxury cars” to North Korea, Matthew Miller underlined and added that, if this report is true, “it seems that for yet once Russia violates UN Security Council resolutions that it has voted for.”