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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim

Will he go by plane or train? How Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia for another meeting with Putin

Primorsky Regional Administration Press Service

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s possible trip to Russia might be like his first one in 2019 — a rattling, 20-hour ride aboard a green-and-yellow armored train that is a quirky symbol of his family’s dynastic leadership.

In what would be his first foreign travel since the start of the pandemic, United States officials say Kim may visit Russia this month for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, possibly to advance talks on North Korean arms sales to refill Russian reserves drained by its war on Ukraine.

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