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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maroosha Muzaffar

Live lobsters, cases of wine and bulletproof carriages: Inside Kim Jong-un’s train to meet Putin

AP

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia for a meeting with Vladimir Putin using his favourite mode of transport – a luxurious, heavily armoured, extremely slowing moving train painted a distinctive shade of green.

While Mr Kim appears to have not inherited his father Kim Jong-il’s reported fear of flying, he has continued the tradition started by his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea of predominantly travelling by rail.

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