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Having done that in the last weeks, I can confirm that the connections are feasible even if they look tight, and my coach was nearly empty (so not panoramic, but easy to change side according to your preferred view, etc.)

Paper "carnets" are supposed to disappear mid-2020, and single tickets sometime in 2021.

By commercial service, Pyongyang - Beijing is 22 hours or so, Beijing-Hanoi 36 hours, so 60 hours looks very reasonable. I did exactly the same trip as Mr Kim 3 years ago ; the speed was noticeably low within North Korea and Vietnam (probably because of the infrastructure more than because of...

Dougal2345, the jingle you're probably referring to comes from the famous symphonic poems Ma Vlast ("my homeland") by the Czech composer Smetana. Those four notes notably appear in the "Moldau" poem, the most famous of all, and are a symbol of the Vyšehrad castle in Prag. Those Czechs are...