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 State Emergency Epidemic Prevention Headquarters said on Saturday...
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. 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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