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Russian diplomats and their families leave North Korea by hand-pushed rail trolley due to Covid-19 restrictions
CNN ^ | Fri February 26, 2021 | Paula Hancocks

Posted on 02/26/2021 11:52:48 AM PST by BenLurkin

Eight employees of Russia's Embassy in Pyongyang and their families spent more than 34 hours trying to leave North Korea this week, a grueling trip that ended with at least one diplomat pushing his luggage and young children on a railway trolley into Russian territory.

North Korea's borders have been effectively locked down for months as part of the Kim Jong Un regime's efforts to keep Covid-19 at bay, stranding the few diplomats operating inside Pyongyang. North Korean state-owned airline Air Koryo operates flights from Vladivostok in eastern Russia, but those flights have also been suspended for months.

The labyrinthine journey was the only way the Russian diplomats and their families could leave the country...

The Russians spent 32 hours traveling on North Korea's old, poorly maintained and notoriously slow rail system. They then rode a bus for two hours to the border, where the families needed to order a railroad trolley for their luggage and push it the rest of the way.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: handpushed; northkorea; railtrolley; russiandiplomats
"Diplomats, aid workers and NGO staff have chosen to leave North Korea rather than risk being stranded due to the country's inflexible and strict border controls. Foreigners that have chosen to remain in North Korea have described an increasingly dire situation in Pyongyang, with grocery stores running out of food and people losing their jobs..."

Sounds like Gavin Newsom is in charge.

1 posted on 02/26/2021 11:52:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

At least California lets you flee.
For now.


2 posted on 02/26/2021 11:56:13 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: BenLurkin

Well, they needed the exercise probably....................


3 posted on 02/26/2021 11:57:28 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: BenLurkin

about time they did some manual labour


4 posted on 02/26/2021 12:01:02 PM PST by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin
If socialism continues its march in the United States, we too will become familiar with that mode of transportation. Everything old will be new again. But hey, at least it’s green!


5 posted on 02/26/2021 12:02:43 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BenLurkin
"Boy, that was lucky. Dang near lost a $400 hand cart."


6 posted on 02/26/2021 12:14:02 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

I knew as soon as I read the title this would in the post. Excellent.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 12:49:19 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: BenLurkin
I will give Vladislav Sorokin, the Russian Foreign Affairs person full credit. he wanted his family out, and if he has to get a railroad push cart to do it, he did it.

He got his wife and kids out of the country before they could be used as pawns against his country and against himself.

Man has to do what a man has to do.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 1:14:29 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

A father creating magic memories....

“Do you remember the time Pappa pushed us out of North Korea on a Railroad cart? “

Saving their lives...

“We were worried that the local Koreans might stop and eat us!”


9 posted on 02/26/2021 1:28:31 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: BenLurkin

Chinese diplomats are also fleeing. The situation must be really bad for these two communist countries, and allies, to pull their diplomats out.


10 posted on 02/26/2021 1:31:31 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: BenLurkin

11 posted on 02/26/2021 1:53:47 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Posts like yours are why we need an upvote system around here. *chuckle* ;-)


12 posted on 02/26/2021 3:04:23 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Great response. The people in my cubicle hades started asking why I was laughing so hard.

But yes, we were making magic memories.


13 posted on 02/26/2021 4:08:50 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Thunder90

Not due to Covid19 restrictions.
Word on the pipelines Norks are planning on some really
bad grefty provocations inbetween March/ April specifically with the timing of the military exercises and the founding/Kim il Sang’s birthday (The day of the Sun).
The Obama people have promised the CCP no fire & fury that any military response would be for dog & pony show only.
The South Koreans are freaking out rumors are swirling that Moon wants to ask current President Obama to freeze the exercises again to allow for new inter-Korean dialogue.
Last week the Norks were probing the DM yet again that defector was a border prober and Nork intelligence op.


14 posted on 02/26/2021 4:42:09 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: wbarmy; EnderWiggin1970

:)


15 posted on 02/26/2021 6:07:04 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for posting this gem of a little story regarding modern totalitarian life!


16 posted on 02/26/2021 6:10:01 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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