{"id":2028484,"date":"2023-09-11T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-kim-jong-uns-armored-train-the-hulking-locomotive-north-korean-despot-takes-instead-of-flying\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T23:14:24","slug":"inside-kim-jong-uns-armored-train-the-hulking-locomotive-north-korean-despot-takes-instead-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-kim-jong-uns-armored-train-the-hulking-locomotive-north-korean-despot-takes-instead-of-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un&#8217;s armored train: The dictator&#8217;s alternative to flying."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finside-kim-jong-uns-armored-train-the-hulking-locomotive-north-korean-despot-takes-instead-of-flying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Kim Jong Un&#8217;s Luxurious Armored Train<\/h2>\n<p>For\u2063 his first foreign trip in over four years, North Korean leader Kim \u2064Jong Un\u2062 appears\u2063 to be using \u2064what seems \u2063like his favorite mode of international\u200d transport: a luxurious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-bay-to-end-the-war-attack-russias-center-of-gravity-vladimir-putin\/\" title=\"Austin Bay: To End the War, Attack Russia's Center of Gravity: Vladimir Putin\">armored train<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials told the Yonhap News Agency that Kim&#8217;s \u2064train had departed Pyongyang \u200bfor what is assumed \u200bto be Vladivostok, a\u2063 Russian port city in its far east.\u200b He is expected to meet with Russian President\u2063 Vladimir Putin, and they will likely discuss North Korean weapons shipments to help\u2063 Russia&#8217;s war\u2062 effort in Ukraine. Given Kim&#8217;s fear of assassination plots, the regime prefers to\u200d travel \u200bin a special armored train, though Kim has flown on \u2062previous occasions, including for his famous summit with former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<h3>The Tradition Continues<\/h3>\n<p>The founding father\u200c of North Korea, Kim Il\u2064 Sung, traveled\u200c by train out\u200b of necessity during the Korean War and continued the habit after the war ended. His\u200b son and successor took up the practice due to his fear \u200cof flying, and Kim Jong Un continued the tradition, likely over security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Due to North Korean secrecy, all that is \u200cknown about the \u200dtrain comes from scant \u2063reports from a select few, primarily Russian diplomats, who have traveled in the train and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-former-u-s-officials-warn-about-bidens-military-agenda-suggests-that-biden-may-be-a-pushover\/\" title=\"Top Former U.S. Officials Warn About Biden\u2019s Military Agenda: \u2018Suggests That Biden May Be A Pushover\u2019\">intelligence reports<\/a>. The armored train likely used by Kim Jong Un, inherited from his father, is of Soviet origin and has heavy modifications. Russian diplomat Georgy Toloraya\u200c said \u200bthat Russian technicians surveying the train in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-kim-jong-uns-armored-train-the-hulking-locomotive-north-korean-despot-takes-instead-of-flying\/\" title=\"Kim Jong Un's armored train: The dictator's alternative to flying.\">2001 discovered armored \u200csheets inserted beneath<\/a> the two main\u2062 railcars,\u2064 the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<h3>A Glimpse Inside<\/h3>\n<p>A 2009 report \u200bfrom Chosun Ilbo, \u2062citing\u2064 American\u200b and \u200bSouth Korean \u200bintelligence, said the train \u2064contained 90 carriages. It\u200c boasts conference rooms, an audience chamber, bedrooms, specialized carriages for carrying two\u200c armored Mercedes\u2064 cars, and plentiful food and\u200d alcohol\u200b stocks. It travels with two other trains, one in front and the other behind, \u200ccarrying a small \u2063army of bodyguards and support personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Former Russian official\u200d Konstantin Pulikovsky wrote in his book Orient Express that during a trip aboard the train with Kim \u2063Jong Il, passengers were able to order any dish from &#8220;Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and French cuisine,&#8221;\u200c in \u2062addition to specially imported wine. Young \u2064women singers keep passengers entertained.<\/p>\n<h3>A Slow and Steady Journey<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from\u200d the luxurious conditions inside, the \u2062train is known for its plodding speed. Despite Vladivostok being located just 300 miles from the North Korean border, the journey is expected to take 20 hours, the Washington\u200d Post reported. Its max speed is just 37 miles per hour. In comparison, the standard American Amtrak Acela travels at\u200b around 150\u200b miles per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after four years, embarks on his first foreign trip. Opting for his preferred mode of transport, a lavish armored train, Kim&#8217;s departure from Pyongyang to Vladivostok, Russia, is confirmed by South Korean officials, as reported by Yonhap News Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}