In a vast and elaborate complex on the edge of the North Korean capital, they sit frozen in time; two luxurious train carriages designed specifically for two supreme leaders — father and son, the predecessors of the man who is now in the middle of his own unusual railway diplomacy in Russia.
When it comes to North Korea’s dynastic dictators, the tradition of train travel — and, some have said, the insistence upon it — extends across the generations. That's in evidence at the massive Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where reconstructions of Kim Jong Un's father's and grandfather's train cars — and, not incidentally, the leaders' preserved and displayed remains — are enshrined.
