Kim takes early smoke break on the way to Hanoi


Warm welcome: Kim arriving at the Dong Dang railway station, Vietnam, at the border with China. — Reuters

SEOUL: It’s unclear whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is going to give up his nukes anytime soon, and the same could probably be said for his cigarettes.

Footage by Japan’s TBS TV showed Kim, a habitual smoker, taking a pre-dawn smoke break yesterday at a train station in China hours before his arrival in Vietnam for his high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump over resolving the international stand-off over the North’s nuclear weapons and missiles.

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