Packing their bags Russia and China the preferred destinations for reclusive leaders of rogue regime
Kim Il-sung
1947 – Secretly travelled to Moscow for meeting with Stalin.
1961 – Returned to Moscow to meet Nikita Khrushchev, the general secretary. 1965 – Attended conference of Asian and African countries in Indonesia. 1984 – Railway tour of Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries including Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. 1990 – Clandestine visit to China to discuss warming relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union.
Kim Jong-il
2000 – Travelled to Beijing before the start of an inter-korean summit. 2001 – Visit to Russia. 2006 – Eight-day trip to Beijing. 2010 – Travelled to Beijing for talks with Hu Jintao, then president. 2011 – Two separate journeys to China, the first in May and again in August. 2011 – August meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, then president, in eastern Russia.
Kim Jong-un
2018 – Trip to Beijing ahead of Us-north Korea summit.