SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In his latest bid to place himself among world leaders confronting the United States, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to China on Tuesday aboard his trademark green armored train, an aging symbol of his family’s dynastic rule that he has used for past foreign trips to break out of diplomatic isolation.

North Korean state media published a photo of Kim smiling broadly while talking with his Foreign Minister, Choe Son Hui, in one of the train’s luxurious meeting rooms, furnished with yellow-brown desks, leather chairs and curtains with golden knots.

Another photo showed him smoking a cigarette outside a carriage marked with a golden state seal, reminiscent of a smoking break he took on the train to Vietnam in 2019 for a summit with U.S. President Donald T

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