Young leader’s sudden flurry of international engagements has depended on his larger, more powerful neighbour
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, centre, arrives at the Dong Dang railway station to attend the second US-North Korea summit, February 26 2019, Picture: NHAC NGUYEN/AFP
With the exception of two summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the border between the two Koreas, every one of Kim’s unprecedented summits with China’s President Xi Jinping and now the second summit with Trump have depended on trains provided by the Chinese. At the time of his first trip to Beijing in March 2018, South Korean media reported that the locomotives were usually used for carrying top Chinese officials, and were connected to Kim’s carriages in the city of Dandong, on the Chinese side of its border with North Korea.
Media outlets captured rare images of Kim in a private moment, smoking a cigarette during a break on a station platform in China. “Under sanctions by the Americans for 50 years and poverty-struck North Korea can’t even afford to buy a plane,” wrote another Weibo user.
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