Kim’s train ride partially followed a route once taken by his grandfather.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has spent nearly three days traveling from North Korea, through China, to Vietnam.
At his first summit with President Donald Trump the supreme leader’s hands were somewhat tied. Singapore is an island—he could not take his train. Kim opted, in this instance, to borrow a plane from North Korea’s close ally China. He got to Singapore quickly but the optics were all wrong. The Air China Boeing 747 he flew in June was made in America and emblazoned with a Chinese flag.
The Associated Press reported Kim Il Sung traveled on his train to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He also traveled to Vietnam in 1958 and 1964 also by train.
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