Kim Jong-un Wraps Up Vietnam Visit, Chugging Back Home Empty-handed

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wrapped up his five-day visit to Vietnam, Saturday, after failing to reach a much-anticipated denuclearization deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

At the last event on his schedule, Kim paid tribute at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum at 9 a.m. before heading to the Dong Dang Railway Station on the Vietnamese border, where he boarded his special train and embarked on the 3,800-kimoleter trip to North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. If the train follows the same route and at the same speed as it did traveling to Vietnam, Kim's trip could take more than 60 hours.

It is not clear yet whether the North Korean leader will stop over in Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the outcome of his summit with Trump. The second Kim-Trump summit, held in Hanoi Feb. 27 and 28, ended abruptly without an agreement, to the dismay of people who had expected it would produce a binding diplomatic resolution ending the North's nuclear and missile programs. The failure is also considered to have dealt a...

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