Kim Jong Un, with a special armored train, could probably have arrived in Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping.
Japanese TV today filmed a mysterious train arriving from North Korea to Beijing. Numerous videos also show that a mammoth procession crossed the city, passing by Chang'n Avenue, not far from the Beijing railway station.
In support of this hypothesis are images from NK News showing that the Dandong border station, where the train would have passed, was temporarily closed and all exits / entrances were barred, so that it could not be seen at all. 'internal. Also, according to sources cited by analyst Chad O'Carroll, Kim Jong Un switched to Dandong today.
The train used by Kim Jong Un is what his father Kim Jong Il used in the 2011 to visit the Chinese capital, shortly before his death.
It would be "perfectly logical" for Kim to travel to Beijing "using her father's armored train," tweeted O'Carrol, who said the route was well-tested by North Korean security.
Bloomberg later confirmed the news that the North Korean leader is in China. The reason, however, is currently unknown. It is in fact Kim's first visit abroad since he became the country's leader in 2011.