Pink leather armchairs and bomb-proof floors: inside Kim Jong-un’s armoured train

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Joe Biden has Air Force One; Rishi Sunak a fleet of RAF jets and helicopters. But when Kim Jong-un makes one of his rare journeys outside North Korea, he has an armoured train in which to while away the hours. The North Korean leader’s dark green locomotive was due to arrive on Tuesday at the Russian port city of Vladivostok, where he will meet Vladimir Putin for talks on supplying the Kremlin with munitions for the war in Ukraine. The trip is Kim’s first outside North Korea since the Covid-19 pandemic forced the country to close its borders, and his...