A smoke break and a sprinting interpreter: Vietnam summit offers rare media scrutiny of Kim Jong Un
Since a nationwide antismoking campaign began in North Korea in 2016, Kim Jong Un has rarely been seen with a cigarette in his hand. But this week, as the young North Korean leader made his way to Vietnam toJust hours before his arrival in Hanoi on Tuesday,caught footage of Kim pacing up on the platform at Nanning Station in China — apparently taking a smoke break during his 65-hour-train journey from Pyongyang. His sister, Kim Yo Jong, held a crystal ashtray for him.
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at Vietnam's Dong Dang station on Feb. 26, his train stopped a little too far ahead and had to reverse for the door to line up with the red carpet. If Kim’s smoke break was a moment of vulnerability, others showed Kim’s power in a way that his carefully controlled image in North Korean state media might not allow. When he completed its 2,000-mile train journey in Dong Dang, a city on the Vietnamese border with China, the train initially stopped slightly too early for his door to line up to the red carpet, prompting a delay as the train shifted back into place.
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