Anonymous ID: a2634a April 24, 2019, 6:58 a.m. No.6295911   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5932

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/kim-jong-un-arrives-in-vladivostok-by-train-for-putin-summit

So began Kim’s highly anticipated two-day visit to Russia for his first summit with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. The journey by rail echoed one made by Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, who met Putin in Vladivostok in 2002 and once travelled more than 12,000 miles round-trip to Moscow on the same train.

 

“I have heard a lot of good things about your country and wanted to visit it for a long time,” Kim said hours earlier at the Khasan border crossing, according to the regional administration. “Seven years have passed since I took charge of the country, but I did not have a chance to visit Russia until now.”

 

Kim, dressed in a black overcoat and fedora hat, was met by members of the Kremlin administration. He is expected to tour Vladivostok on Wednesday and then prepare for the summit with Putin to be held on Thursday on the island campus of the Far Eastern University.