North Korean leaders have been known to travel with an iron-clad security detail when on trips, even to the North Korea's countryside to inspect facilities. The bodyguards are chosen for their fitness, looks, marksmanship and martial arts skills, AFP reported.





Ri Yong Guk, a North Korean defector who once served on the late Kim Jong Il’s security detail, wrote in a 2013 memoir that the former North Korean despot had up to six different layers of security guards.





TRUMP ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE AHEAD OF CRITICAL SUMMIT WITH NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN





"It is one of the world's tightest security blankets through which even a single ant would find it hard to go," Ri wrote in the memoir, according to AFP.





Kim arrived in Singapore hours before Trump arrived in Air Force One. The U.S. president told reporters he felt “very good” about the historic summit moments before he was whisked away to his hotel.





U.S. and North Korean officials are set to meet Monday morning in Singapore to make final preparations for Tuesday's meeting between Trump and Kim.





This will be the first summit of its kind between a leader of North Korea and a sitting U.S. president. The North has faced crippling diplomatic and economic sanctions as it has advanced development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.















