Kim’s possible trip to Russia could be like his 2019 journey: 20 hours on his armored trainBy Publisher DL / September 7, 2023 Kim’s famously flight-averse father, Kim Jong Il, made about a dozen trips abroad during his 17-year rule, almost all to China and all by train. North Korea’s state media said that the elder Kim died of a heart attack during a train trip in 2011.