Kim heads for Beijing
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May 22, 2011, Sunday
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NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il was said to have visited an industrial city in northeastern China yesterday and then appeared to be heading to Beijing by train on the second day of a mysterious trip.
Kim hasn't made any public appearances since his apparent arrival in China on Friday, and it wasn't known who he was meeting or the makeup of his entourage.
His rare foreign visits have always been shrouded in secrecy.
South Korea's Yonhap News agency said Kim arrived in the city of Changchun by train early in the day and was shuttled by motorcade to the same state guesthouse where he had met with President Hu Jintao during a visit to the city in August.
A motorcade later left the guesthouse, known as the Nanhu Hotel, early in the afternoon and headed toward the city's train station, but journalists were barred from shooting pictures in the vicinity.
Yonhap later reported Kim's train had passed the station in the city of Shenyang and was headed south toward Beijing, where he is expected to hold talks with Chinese leaders. Kim is believed to have a fear of flying and maintains custom-built trains, protected by blast-proof armor and luxuriously appointed, that carry him on a secret network within North Korea and on trips across Russia and into China.
Kim, 69, appears to have recovered from a reported stroke in 2008 and has resumed steady visits to factories and farms around North Korea. But travel outside his home country is rare.
This trip, however, would be Kim's third to China in just over a year.
(AP)
Kim hasn't made any public appearances since his apparent arrival in China on Friday, and it wasn't known who he was meeting or the makeup of his entourage.
His rare foreign visits have always been shrouded in secrecy.
South Korea's Yonhap News agency said Kim arrived in the city of Changchun by train early in the day and was shuttled by motorcade to the same state guesthouse where he had met with President Hu Jintao during a visit to the city in August.
A motorcade later left the guesthouse, known as the Nanhu Hotel, early in the afternoon and headed toward the city's train station, but journalists were barred from shooting pictures in the vicinity.
Yonhap later reported Kim's train had passed the station in the city of Shenyang and was headed south toward Beijing, where he is expected to hold talks with Chinese leaders. Kim is believed to have a fear of flying and maintains custom-built trains, protected by blast-proof armor and luxuriously appointed, that carry him on a secret network within North Korea and on trips across Russia and into China.
Kim, 69, appears to have recovered from a reported stroke in 2008 and has resumed steady visits to factories and farms around North Korea. But travel outside his home country is rare.
This trip, however, would be Kim's third to China in just over a year.
(AP)
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