Little Rocket Man has a crazy train.
Kim Jong Un is preparing to ride the luxury rails to eastern Russia, where the North Korean leader is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin about supplying weapons to bolster Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials said. earlier this week.
Kim, 39,’s private train service was inherited from his late father, dictator Kim Jong Il, and was created out of fear of flying.
The cars are bulletproof and this convoy certainly won’t be mistaken for a bullet train: the armored protection is so heavy that average speeds top out at 37 mph.
(Amtrak’s Acela Express reaches 150 mph, while France’s TGV, the world’s fastest, tops out at 357 mph.)
The train is believed to be equipped with dark wood-paneled conference rooms, as well as several bedrooms, satellite phones, flat-screen televisions and approximately 100 security officers who scan the routes and upcoming stations for bombs and other threats.
As for the dining car, chefs are on duty to prepare Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or French cuisine.
The North Korean dictator’s train features lobster, barbecue, satellite phones and flat-screen TVs.
Boxes of live lobsters and other delicacies arrive fresh by plane, according to a 2002 account by Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky, who traveled with Kim Jong Il.
BBQ is available, along with Bordeaux and Beaujolais.
Kim Jong Il was known for his demandingness on board the train, such as at a stop in Omsk when he was unimpressed with a serving of fried Russian dumplings.
Kim Jong Un’s private train, inherited from his father, is so bulletproof that it can only travel at 60 km/h.AP
“Kim Jong Il poked them with a fork and said, ‘What kind of pelmeni are these?’” Pulikovsky wrote. “’They must be large, boiled and in broth.’
The New York Times has reported that the current leader’s diet tends toward Swiss cheese, Cristal champagne and Hennessy cognac.
To spice up the trip, a group of female performers known as “beautiful conductors” frequently serenaded Kim’s father in Korean and Russian, Pulikovsky wrote.
A performer entertained North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un’s father, aboard a train during a visit to Russia in 2011. The singers on the train are known as “conductors.” SPTV
Kim Jong Il in the luxurious dining car during a 2011 video.SPTV
The train’s conference room, seen in the same video from 2011, is paneled in rich, dark wood.SPTV
Watching for attacks, a separate train precedes and follows the convoy, which reportedly consisted of up to 90 carriages.
The next trip for the secretive Kim Jong Un, 39, could come as early as Sunday and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, some 425 miles from Pyongyang.
He also plans to travel by armored train to Russia’s Pier 33, where anti-submarine ships keep watch over the Pacific port city, as well as a possible stop in Moscow, the New York Times reported.
The long-awaited expedition will mark Kim’s first overseas trip since North Korea closed its borders in early 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kim Jong Un took his train to Vladivostok, Russia, in April 2019 to meet with President Vladimir Putin.AP
Kim and Putin, 70, last met in April 2019 in Vladivostok, Russia, where the North Korean leader arrived after a 20-hour journey aboard a green and yellow fortified train.
Kim’s mysterious, slow-moving motorcade took him to Beijing in 2018 for secret talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he assembled his armored entourage to meet US President Donald Trump in Vietnam in 2019.
Kim Jong Un is said to enjoy Bordeaux and Beaujolais wines on his train.AP
About 20 stations have been built across North Korea specifically to accommodate the trains, which have drawn the attention of South Korean and American intelligence agents using reconnaissance planes and other methods.
A mausoleum on the outskirts of Pyongyang, where the bodies of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, lie, features a replica of the ornate train carriages.
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