North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is taking a 2,000-mile, three-and-a-half day train ride to meet US President Donald Trump…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is taking a 2,000-mile, three-and-a-half day train ride to meet US President Donald Trump in Vietnam this Wednesday, likely to save face because he doesn’t want to ask China to lend him a plane.
Kim boarded his family’s armored train from Pyongyang Station on Saturday evening, and plans to arrive in Hanoi on Tuesday, the day before his summit with Trump.
Kim crossed into Dandong, a Chinese city bordering North Korea, via bridge on late Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The rest of the trip will take him through southeastern China before he eventually arrives in Hanoi.
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He passed by the southeastern Chinese city of Hengyang around Monday afternoon local time, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
According to INSIDER’s calculations, the entire trip will be at least 2,000 miles long.
The specifics of his trip are not clear. Citing Vietnamese officials, The New York Times reported on Sunday that Kim will leave his train at China’s border with Vietnam and travel the last 105 miles or so to Hanoi by car.
