{"id":28987,"date":"2021-02-26T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/feb\/26\/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley-video"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:04:12","slug":"russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28987","title":{"rendered":"Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official \u2013 if not always fond \u2013 farewell from their hosts and a comfortable journey back to their native country.<\/p>\n<p>But for one group of Russian envoys and their families, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>&nbsp;meant there was only one way home: under their own steam on a hand-pushed rail trolley.<\/p>\n<p>A more conventional exit from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a>&nbsp;has not been possible since the country closed its land borders and banned international air travel early on in the pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley\">Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/feb\/26\/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official \u2013 if not always fond \u2013 farewell from their hosts and a comfortable journey back to their native country.But for one group of Russian envoys and their families, the&amp;nbs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28990,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987\/revisions\/28990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}