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China-Japan-Koreas
Kimmie may visit allies
2008-04-18
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is likely to visit Vietnam and China next week on an unprecedented trip by plane, a news report said Thursday.
"You'll never get me up on one o' them! I wanna go by train!"
"But Your Enormity! You cannot go by train from Pyongyang to Hanoi!"
"Why do I want to go to Hanoi?"
"The hookers, Your Ferocity!"
"And why don't I want to go by train?"
"Sergeant Arsicaud, Your Terribility! He is still out there. Somewhere. Waiting. To pounce."
"Since 1954?"
"These Frenchies, Your Monstrousness, they like to wait until your guard is down."
"Can I go Lufthansa?"
Kim could make an official visit to Vietnam and stop in China on his way back home, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing unidentified diplomatic sources in China. In October, Kim accepted an invitation to visit Hanoi from Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh. Kim has also regularly visited neighboring China, the North's main ally.

Since taking power in 1994, Kim is not known to travel by plane. He took a special luxury train all the way to Moscow on a 2001 visit to Russia. Kim "would travel this time by plane, not by train," Yonhap quoted an unidentified source in Beijing who handles North Korean affairs.
Posted by:Fred

#7  TOPIX > REPORT SAYS - NORTH KOREA BUILDING UNDERGROUND RUNWAY. SOKOR Officio says would only do such construx in case of war.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-18 23:42  

#6  Does NorK have fighters? Planes?
Posted by: Harcourt Jush7795   2008-04-18 18:39  

#5  Considering what happened the last time he took the train, it is possible he feels safer traveling by plane. But, there better be armed guards on all the NorK fighters while he is in the air or there could be a succession problem.
Posted by: RWV   2008-04-18 13:38  

#4  He gonna be in any international airspace? Might be fun to have a couple of F-18s pull up on his wingtips. Just to say hi...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-18 13:03  

#3  Looking over retirement property, perhaps.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-04-18 12:51  

#2  Strange, things must be bad if he needs to beg money off China and Vietnam. At least he has a nest egg from us to tide him over.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-04-18 09:59  

#1  See also TOPIX > KRAUTHAMMER - DETERRENCE, MISSLES MAY SAVE US. Cold War style Mutual Destruction, vv Iran-NK; + MISSLE DEFENSE. "The inevitable has arrived" - the era of non-proliferation is over. Also from TOPIX > DETERRING THE UNDETERRABLE + SOUTH KOREANS DEBATE THE NEED FOR US PRESENCE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-18 01:39  

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