For his second summit with US President DonaldTrump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opted to go retro - riding the rails like his grandfather decades before.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre right, is welcomed upon arrival by train, back, in Dong Dang in Vietnamese border town ahead of his second summit with US President Donald Trump. Picture: Minh Hoang/AP
Kim Jong Un's journey aboard his forest green train from Pyongyang to the Vietnamese border town of Dong Dang took more than two and a half days. That's longer than it took Trump to fly halfway around the world, even with Air Force One stopping for fuel along the way. This time around, when Kim stepped down early Tuesday from his distinctive yellow-trimmed train, he was greeted with a bouquet of flowers on a patterned red carpet lined with a Vietnamese honour guard and the five-pointed communist-starred flags of North Korea and Vietnam. He then switched to a black limousine for the final drive to Hanoi.
A mock-up of a car from the train is on permanent display at the mausoleum where Kim Il Sung and his son, late leader Kim Jong Il, lie in state, along with maps that light up to show the routes he took on his travels. During his father's rule, trips abroad were often not reported for days after they were over, if at all.
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