"This is legacy politics," said Christopher Green, a North Korea expert with the International Crisis Group. "North Korea will want to play up Kim’s succession to the role of his grandfather, who successfully built up North Korea's international legitimacy after the establishment of the state." Even Kim Jong Un's long train journey through North Korea and thousands of kilometres across China to reach Vietnam is similar to the grand train voyages his grandfather once took. Kim Il Sung visited Ha Long Bay in 1964 during his second visit to Vietnam. South Korea's Samsung Electronics operates a massive smartphone factory in Bac Ninh, another province popular with Vietnamese and international manufacturers.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2019 01:41 UTC