Beijing/Seoul ¨C An Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing early Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, as North Korea cracks open its border to some passenger travel.
The flight, JS151, arrived at 9:17 a.m., shortly ahead of its scheduled time. It wasn¡¯t immediately clear who was aboard, but Western tour companies that operated in North Korea said it appeared to be a special flight that would on the return carry back North Koreans who had been trapped in China by the years of border closures.
The flight comes amid a slow reopening for one of the world¡¯s most politically and economically isolated countries.
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