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Related: About this forumRussian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley
In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official if not always fond farewell from their hosts and a comfortable journey back to their native country.
But for one group of Russian envoys and their families, the coronavirus pandemic meant there was only one way home under their own steam on a hand-pushed rail trolley.
A video clip shows some members of the group smiling and shouting for the camera as they push the trolley over the a bridge spanning the Tumen river, which divides North Korea and Russia.
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The ministry name-checked the embassys third secretary, Vladislav Sorokin, as the trolleys engine after he pushed it for more than a kilometre.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley
But for one group of Russian envoys and their families, the coronavirus pandemic meant there was only one way home under their own steam on a hand-pushed rail trolley.
A video clip shows some members of the group smiling and shouting for the camera as they push the trolley over the a bridge spanning the Tumen river, which divides North Korea and Russia.
...
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The ministry name-checked the embassys third secretary, Vladislav Sorokin, as the trolleys engine after he pushed it for more than a kilometre.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley
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Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2021
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MyOwnPeace
(16,939 posts)1. Let's hope they didn't run into "trouble....."
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)2. North Korean Amtrak?
Bayard
(22,163 posts)3. There has to be
A Roadrunner and Coyote 'toon in there somewhere.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)4. O brother where art thou - Prophecy Scene
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