North Korea requires significant financial support following three years of strict border closures over COVID-19 fears, which the country claimed to have eradicated last year.
completed its first commercial airline flight since the start of the pandemic, marking a major step towards ending the strict border controls maintained throughout the pandemic.
"This flight isn’t a full resumption of the route yet, it is a special flight for Koreans only to take people home again after years being stuck overseas, the same as the flights that seem likely to happen soon from Vladivostok," Simon Cockerell, general manager at Koryo Tours, said.The Chinese foreign ministry announced Monday that it would allow flights between neighboring countries as it continued to roll back heavy pandemic-era restrictions.
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