Pleased to see his excellency, the Supreme Leader, Comrade Kim is promoting international rail travel so much these days with his first trip to Vietnam and now Russia! Europe via Trans-sib next?!
Kim Jong-un arrived in Vladivostok on Wednesday after a brief stop in the Russian border city of Hasan as he prepares for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Kim's train rolled into the station two guards were filmed frantically wiping down the door he was due to use. There was a minor hiccup when the train pulled up in the wrong spot, but after a momentary readjustment he stepped out.
KHASAN is most definitely NOT a city! It's a small isolated village, right on the DPRK border. DM quality journalism as usual..
I was there last summer, an experience that will stay with me for life.
Helmut Uttenthaler of ÖBB summed this unique part of the world up well in his Wien-Pyongyang blog that inspired me to visit
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/:
"Now we are really at the end of the world, or at least of the world, too which we are used…"