SEOUL ¨C Perhaps none of the communist legacies shared by Vietnam and North Korea highlighted during Kim Jong Un¡¯s ¡°goodwill visit¡± to Hanoi is stranger than the embalmed leaders on display in their capitals ¡ª and the secretive team of Russian technicians who keep the bodies looking ageless.
Kim laid a wreath outside Ho Chi Minh¡¯s mausoleum on Saturday, after his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Inside the dark interior of the mausoleum, the embalmed corpse of Vietnam¡¯s founding father lies displayed in a glass coffin for a stream of tourists who silently shuffle by.
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