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When traveling to Russia the train wheels must be changed somewhere around the border because Russia has different rail gauges. [10] A second train accompanied Kim's carrying bogies of the other gauge needed. [citation needed] On Kim Jong Il's visit to Russia in 2001, the train was reported to have had 22 carriages. [7]
Every 14 days, the direct car of the formation of the Korean State Railway, attached to train No. 100, runs from Moscow to Pyongyang.The main passenger traffic consists of citizens of the DPRK, traveling to work in Russia or returning; in exceptional cases, some of the places are sold to organized groups of tourists traveling to Rason with a transfer to a bus in Tumangang.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used a dark green train to travel to Russia, state media showed on Tuesday, relying on a slow but specialised form of transportation that the reclusive country's ...
Rajin has a rail link to the Russian Railways system over the Friendship Bridge across the Tumen River in the North Korea–Russia border. There is transborder passenger service from Pyongyang to Moscow, with a Korean rail car taken across the border (with bogies changed to the Russian gauge), and eventually attached to a Vladivostok-Moscow ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves from a private train as he departs Pyongyang, North Korea, to visit Russia, 10 September 2023 (Reuters) A view of the main train station in Vladivostok ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia, where he is expected to hold a rare meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for ...
(Reuters) - Russia will resume direct passenger rail service with North Korea in July after a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the news agency Interfax reported on Wednesday.
The Hongŭi Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the North Korean State Railway running from Hongŭi on the Hambuk Line to Tumangang, which is the border station between North Korea and Russia. From Tumangang the line continues across the border to Khasan, Russia. [1]