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Kim arrives in Vladivostok, Russia for historic summit with Putin | |
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Kim Jong-un’s armored train has reached Vladivostok, a city in Russia’s Far East, which will host the first-ever meeting between Kim and President Vladimir Putin. | Kim Jong-un’s armored train has reached Vladivostok, a city in Russia’s Far East, which will host the first-ever meeting between Kim and President Vladimir Putin. |
The summit, which is scheduled for Thursday, will be hosted by the Far Eastern Federal University at its new campus on Russky Island, which is across the bridge from Vladivostok. | |
The program of the visit has largely been kept secret, but evidence of preparations for the high-profile meeting has been floating around since Monday. | The program of the visit has largely been kept secret, but evidence of preparations for the high-profile meeting has been floating around since Monday. |
The armored train arrived at the station in Vladivostok hours after crossing the Korean-Russian border on Wednesday morning. As it was coming to a stop, Korean bodyguards in black business suits and white gloves poured out onto the platform. | |
They wiped clean the door that their leader would soon exit from, and put in place a small ramp connecting the train car and a red carpet prepared for Kim. | |
They wiped clean the door that their leader would soon exit from, and put in place a small ramp connecting the train car and a red carpet prepared for Kim. | |
Kim had a smaller welcoming ceremony at the Russian border town of Khasan, where he was offered bread and salt as a gesture of hospitality, and a short tour to a historic building which has significance for the North Korean ruling family. | |
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