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Kim heads home after train trip in Far East

Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, left Russia on Sunday, Russian media reported, ending his sixday trip by train to Russia's Far East. Kim's train departed to the sound of the Russian patriotic march song Farewell of Slavianka at the end of a farewell ceremony at a railway station in Artyom, Russia's state news agency RIA reported. The Associated Press said Kim was expected to return to Pyongyang around Monday afternoon. Since entering Russia on Tuesday on his first overseas trip in more than four years, Kim has met Russian President Vladimir Putin and visited technology and military sites. While meeting Kim, Putin accepted an invitation to visit Pyongyang and offered to send a DPRK citizen to space.