Posted on 06/11/2024 9:23:24 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
News comes as Russia’s Putin plans to visit North Korea in coming weeks.
After a four-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, passenger rail service between Russia and North Korea has been restored, with 41 Russian tourists taking the train to North Korea last week, according to Moscow’s customs service.
The news comes amid a report Monday from the Russian daily Vedomosti that President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea sometime in the next few weeks.
That would mark only the second time that Putin has visited the country, after a July 2000 trip – although Putin did meet with Kim Jong Un in September in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok.
The exact timing of the trip wasn’t clear, but Russia’s ambassador in Pyongyang, Alexander Matsegora, said the visit was being “actively prepared.”
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..ah yes...NK, one of the great tourist destinations....
Don’t know. Got to do with where choo-choo go
N. Korea has coal. About 50 billion metric tonnes of all kinds. They export it, often in trade, ignoring currency.
That’s how this gets paid for:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wonsan-kalma-beach-resort-north-korea/index.html
Oh, wonderful! I was going to Disney next year, but I think I will tour North Korea instead! Such a lovely place! 😉
Maybe I will bring back a souvenir poster of the little fat guy!
I was thinking the very same thing but you beat me to it. I’ll let you go first and you report back with a glowing report.
North Korea got enough people in the slave camps to get the rail system fixed bones all over the place.
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