SEOUL: North Korea has approved the return of its citizens who were abroad after years of strict border restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, state media reported on Sunday (Aug 27) as the isolated country cracks open its border to passenger travel. In a statement carried by the KCNA news agency, the
SEOUL: North Korea has approved the return of its citizens who were abroad after years of strict border restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, state media reported on Sunday as the isolated country cracks open its border to passenger travel.
"Those returned will be put under proper medical observation at quarantine wards for a week," the statement said.an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing for the first time It wasn't immediately clear who was aboard the flight, but Western tour companies that operate in North Korea has said it appeared to be a flight that would carry back North Koreans who had been stuck in China by the years of border closures.
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