Fear of flying? Not young Kim
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A new photograph of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un disembarking from a plane suggests he doesn’t share his father Kim Jong-Il’s near-obsessive fear of flying.
The ruling party’s official daily, Rodong Sinmun, ran a large color picture yesterday of Kim stepping down the red-carpeted stairs from a civilian aircraft at Samjiyon, near the Chinese border.
It is believed to be the first picture of Kim traveling by air, something his father, whom he succeeded as leader in December 2011, refused to do.
Over the course of seven trips to China and a month-long trip to Russia in 2001, Kim Jong Il traveled in a customized, armored train carriage.
His choice was not just down to a reportedly deep-rooted dread of flying, but also fear of assassination.
Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, the country’s founder leader Kim Il Sung, flew regularly.
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