North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to be on a train heading to Russia, multiple South Korean media outlets reported on Monday citing government officials.
Neither Russia nor North Korea have officially confirmed the meeting. The latest media reports come after US officials warned last week that Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet as arms negotiations advance between their two countries – though no specific date or location as given for this potential meeting. If the visit goes ahead it would mark Kim’s first foreign trip since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The remaining trip was to the DMZ in 2018 to meet with then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Vladivostok lies 130 km from the border with North Korea. The North Korea leader is said to prefer traveling in an upscale armored train – as did his father before him – but rail travel accounts for less than half of his foreign trips. Three of this nine trips have been made in planes and two, both to the DMZ, by car.
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