text: The "human motorcade," as some news outlets called it, kept pace with the vehicle and stayed in perfect formation as it drove around turns in the road. He rides a slow-moving, bulletproof train Kim Jong-un waves from inside his train as he prepares to depart from Beijing, in this photo released by KCNA (AFP/Getty Images) Most world leaders travel by aeroplane, but much like his father and grandfather, Kim Jong-Un's preferred mode of transportation is private train. Whenever Kim travels, as he did to China last month, three trains are needed: an advance security train, Kim's train, and another train for bodyguards and supplies, according to The New York Times. Each of Kim's 90 high-security carriages is bulletproof, and with all the extra weight, the trains top out at just 37 miles per hour, The Times reported. He doesn't use public restrooms when he travels — he uses a 'personal toilet' instead Apparently, Kim Jong-un doesn't use public restrooms when he travels, instead opting for a "personal toilet," Lee Yun-keol, a former member of the North Korean Guard Command unit, told The Washington Post. And the reason has nothing to do with cleanliness. "Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels," Lee told The Post. "The leader’s excretions contain information about his health status so they can’t be left behind." In 2015, South Korean news agency DailyNK reported that a customized bathroom is built into one of the cars of Kim's convoy of armoured vehicles. He brought a special noodle machine from Pyongyang Kim's meticulously planned meeting with South Korean president Moon Jae-In accounted for the personal tastes of both leaders.
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  “Having pets was never really part of the culture,” he says. “North Korea has always been a very poor country, and they’ve always had difficulty feeding their citizens. Keeping an animal you have to feed when you yourself aren’t getting enough rice to get you through the day is an outrageous luxury to them.” At the zoo — which houses “more than 6,000 animals and some 650 species” according to official North Korean state media — dogs and cats are housed in separate facilities and kept in clean, spacious cages that usually hold between one and three animals each. Jeppesen noticed around a dozen dog breeds there, including Yorkshire terriers and Pungsans, a breed native to the country. At the home of a government official, Jeppesen also got a look at the nation’s television habits. The evening news is a fawning, monotonous rundown of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s daily schedule while “cheery symphonic music” plays in the background. But as Jeppesen watched, the official turned off the news and put on “a pirated copy of ‘Zootopia’ he bought at a DVD stall.” Farmers working inside a fence preventing them from escape to China. Photo by: Chen HaoSource:News Corp Australia North Koreans regularly consume illegal foreign media via smuggled USB drives and, as a result, are savvier about the outside world than most people think, Jeppesen writes. Even so, Jeppesen’s trip became increasingly challenging, as the stress of constantly being watched by his minders and the assumption that his hotel room, phone and computer were all bugged took a toll. “Psychologically, it was very difficult and stressful. It had all these weird side effects,” Jeppesen says.