Little Rocket Man has a crazy train.
Kim Jong Un is preparing to board a luxury runway to eastern Russia, where the North Korean leader is expected to meet Vladimir Putin about supplying weapons to escalate Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, US officials said earlier this week.
The 39-year-old Kim’s private train service was inherited from his father, former dictator Kim Jong Il, and was created out of a fear of flying.
The cars are bulletproof, and this convoy certainly wouldn’t be mistaken for a bullet train — the armored protection is so heavy that the average speed is over 37 mph.
(Amtrak’s Acela Express reaches 150 mph, while France’s TGV, the fastest in the world, exceeds 357 mph.)
The train is believed to be equipped with dark wood-panelled conference rooms, as well as several bedrooms, satellite phones, flat-screen TVs and about 100 security agents who scan the route and oncoming stations for bombs and other threats.
For the dining car, the chef is ready to prepare Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or French cuisine.
North Korea’s dictator train features lobster, BBQ, satellite phones and flat screen TVs.
Cases of live lobster and other delicacies were flown in fresh, according to a 2002 account by Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky who traveled with Kim Jong Il.
Barbecue is available, along with Bordeaux and Beaujolais.
Kim Jong Il is known for his picky behavior on trains, such as at a stop in Omsk when he was unimpressed by a dish of fried Russian dumplings.
Kim Jong Un’s private train, inherited from his father, is so heavy and bulletproof it can only go 37 mph.AP
“Kim Jong Il plucked them with a fork and said: “What kind of pelmeni is this?” Pulikovsky wrote. “It should be big, boiled and in soup.”
The New York Times has reported that the current leader’s diet tends towards Swiss cheese, Cristal Champagne and Hennessy cognac.
To spice up the trip, a group of female performers known as “pretty lady conductors” often sang Kim’s older songs in Korean and Russian, Pulikovsky wrote.
A female entertainer entertains North Korean leader Kim Jong Il — Kim Jong Un’s father — on a train during a visit to Russia in 2011. The train’s female singers are known as “female conductors.” SPTV
Kim Jong Il seen in luxury dining car during video 2011. SPTV
The train’s conference room, seen in the same 2011 video, is paneled in dark, rich wood.SPTV
In search of the attack, separate trains preceded and followed the convoy, which reportedly consisted of as many as 90 carriages.
The next cruise for Kim Jong Un, 39, could come as soon as Sunday and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, about 425 miles from Pyongyang.
He also plans to travel by armored train to Russia’s Pier 33, where anti-submarine ships monitor the Pacific port city, as well as a possible stop in Moscow, the New York Times reported.
The expected expedition will mark Kim’s first foreign trip since North Korea closed its borders in early 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kim Jong Un boards his train to Vladivostok, Russia, in April 2019 for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.AP
Kim and Putin, 70, last met at an April 2019 meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, where the North Korean leader arrived after a 20-hour ride on a reinforced green-yellow train.
Kim’s mysterious slow-moving caravan took him to Beijing in 2018 for secret talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he boarded his armored entourage to meet President Trump in Vietnam in 2019.
About 20 stations have been built across North Korea specifically to house the trains, which have attracted the attention of South Korean and US intelligence operatives using reconnaissance aircraft and other methods.
Kim Jong Un is said to enjoy Bordeaux and Beaujolais wine in his train.AP
A mausoleum outside Pyongyang, where the bodies of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung lie in state, displays a replica of a tricked-out train carriage.
With Postal wire
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