Why a mystery armoured train could hold the key to Kim Jong-un’s rumoured visit to China

scmp ^ | 27 March, 2018 | Sarah Zheng http://twitter.com/_szheng sarah.zheng@scmp.com 286SHARE 7 PrintEmail

[JoeProBono]

[1Old Pro]

It was a protocol visit, to meet personally with the Chinese leader for life prior to meeting with Trump.

[BenLurkin]

That the train which narrowly escaped being destroyed in the big explosion a few years back?

[JoeProBono]

Earlier this month, he met for the first time with two high-level representatives from South Korea in Pyongyang, the highest-level meeting between the two countries in years. He and South Korean President Moon Jae-In are supposed to have a summit in April, a historic meeting no matter what happens.

[JoeProBono]

The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on April 22, 2004, in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border with the People's Republic of China.

The disaster occurred when flammable cargo exploded at Ryongchon Station at around 13:00 local time (04:00 GMT). The news was released by South Korean media outlets, which reported that up to 3,000 people had been killed or injured in the blast and subsequent fires.

The North Korean government declared a state of emergency in the region, but little information about the accident has been made public by the North Korean government. Shortly after the accident the North Korean government cut telephone lines to the rest of the world (an action correspondents attributed either to a desire to inhibit foreign reporting or to prevent their own population from learning news about the accident).

[takbodan]

More likely it was his sister visiting China. Rocket man is too afraid to travel. Anyone know if Dennis Rodman was also in China?

[PlateOfShrimp]

Please tell me that pic is shopped. Otherwise, I’d say Rocket Man is from Remulac.

[mrsmith]

Good way to smuggle nuclear materials too. So “win-win”!

[varon]

More likely it was his sister visiting China. Rocket man is too afraid to travel. Anyone know if Dennis Rodman was also in China?

Does his sister and Dennis have a thing going on?

[ADemocratNoMore]

>The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on April 22, 2004

I remember seeing a couple dozen pictures that were released at the time that were taken by an international aid agency that was in the country at the time. The ground level images looked very similar to the damage seen in nuclear tests. Not saying it was but the over-pressures from the blast wave created the same type of damage. Pretty much the whole city was turned to rubble. Some have speculated that it was an early deployment of the "Rods from God" Google images has some of the pictures.

[353FMG]

>>The disaster occurred when flammable cargo exploded at Ryongchon Station at around 13:00 local time (04:00 GMT). The news was released by South Korean media outlets, which reported that up to 3,000 people had been killed or injured in the blast and subsequent fires.<<

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That’ll teach them NOT to use LNG — safest and cleanest fuel.

[mosesdapoet]

Story posted several times no pix. Hoped when seeing your nome de plume we’d see a pix of the train. Thanx! What’s interesting is the uniforms those cops are wearing are similar to most countries including ours.

[JoeProBono]

Thx

Spekulationen um heimlichen Besuch von Kim Jong-un in China

[JoeProBono]

Even when Kim has traveled by air it has been domestic flights only since becoming ruler of North Korea. Here he is seen aboard a VVIP configured IL-62M. During this mission he flew over Pyongyang to look at a large development project.

[Riley]

That massive hat...

[offduty]

The hat does double duty as a WOK.

[tbw2]

I wonder if he’s aware of how many suspicious plane crashes killed other leaders. Another reason to take the train.

[JoeProBono]

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[M Kehoe]

They need hamburgers, lots of hamburgers.

And French fries.

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