North Korea is expected to resume passenger flights to Russia and China in the near future following their suspension in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's Tass news agency and diplomatic sources said Friday.
A total of two flights from Pyongyang are set to arrive in Vladivostok on Aug. 25 and 28, the news agency quoted a local airport official as saying. North Korea and China have also been discussing the restart of Beijing-Pyongyang flights, the diplomatic sources in the Chinese capital said.
The Vladivostok-bound flights are expected to be operated by Air Koryo, North Korea's state-run carrier, but no information is available on return flights to Pyongyang.
Fares for the flights linking Pyongyang and the Russian Far East city as well as the North Korean capital and Beijing have been released on the Air Koryo website.
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, North Korea shut its border around the end of January and the beginning of February in 2020.
About 50 people believed to be North Korean athletes set to take part in an international taekwondo event in Kazakhstan arrived Wednesday in China's border city of Dandong, marking the first time that Pyongyang has sent a domestic sports team overseas since the border closure.
They then moved to Beijing aboard a train and flew to Kazakhstan on Friday.
