2023-09-14 12:22:29
Kim Jong-un’s moving fortress
Kim Jong-un’s preferred means of transportation is trains. “The moving fortress” is armored, full of luxury goods and safer than the plane. To do this, he accepts a cruising speed of 55 km/h.
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Kim Jong-un travels more often by his presidential train than by plane. His “moving fortress” is an office, luxury accommodation and armored. Kim Jong-un’s private jet dates back to the Soviet era and is considered outdated and less safe. Kim Jong-un’s predecessors, Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, traveled in their personal train cars.
Kim Jong-un is keeping up the rail-riding tradition of his predecessors. The North Korean hereditary monarch traveled by rail to his meeting with President Putin in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
The journey is said to have taken 20 hours. A stone’s throw compared to his father Kim Jong-il’s journey from Pyongyang to Moscow. He is said to have spent 20 days on the train to cover the 20,000 kilometers. Both Kim Jong-il and the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, had their own traits. Both are on display in the Kumusan Palace of the Sun.
Governing on rails: Kim Jong-un in his “moving fortress”.
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Kim Jong-un’s “moving fortress”, as the train is also called, is actually a palace running on rails with sleeping quarters, a restaurant, a ballroom, conference and work rooms. The North Korean ruler can receive emails and faxes there, as SRF writes. Dark green and with ocher-yellow stripes on the side, Kim Jong-un’s train resembles the old SBB wagons.
Armored, armed and slow
“Traveling fortress” is of course also applicable. The windows are made of bulletproof glass and the floor is secured once morest explosives. Armed security forces come along. There are said to have been guards along the railway line on which the dictator was traveling.
If you want to go a little faster, Kim Jong-un can switch to a helicopter, which will ride in one of the 90 cars. The entire dictator train consists of 90 cars, all armored from floor to roof.
The enormous weight means that he an average of only 55 km/h can drive, as Al Jazeera has learned. The “Supreme Leader” of North Korea tends to jog leisurely through the landscape.
Kim Jong-un is not afraid of flying
However, unlike his father Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un does not suffer from fear of flying. The current ruler is said to have often traveled in private planes before his term in office.
But in recent years, the government jet called Chammae-1 has mostly remained grounded. The Ilyushin Il-62 is said to have been built in the Soviet Union 40 years ago. It definitely no longer corresponds to the state of the art. Experts also consider them unsafeas it is no longer produced and maintenance is probably difficult.
In 2018, when Kim Jong-un met President Trump in Vietnam, the Chammae-1 flew there, but he himself sat in a Boeing 747 provided by the Chinese government.
For the trip to Vladivostok, the North Korean dictator chose his train once more, as he did in 2019. Slowly, surely and entirely in the North Korean style of self-portrayal.
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