RESTRICTED TICKETS
The service linking the capitals will operate four days a week in both directions, running on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, China’s railway authority said in a notice.
Tickets, restricted to business visa holders, were sold out for Thursday’s trip, but those for Mar 18 were still available, a Beijing travel agency said.
The shorter Dandong-Pyongyang link will operate daily in both directions, with the first service leaving China’s northeastern city of Dandong at 10am on Thursday to arrive in Pyongyang at 6.07pm, the official news agency Xinhua said.
Cross-border flights were also halted during the pandemic.
North Korea’s state carrier Air Koryo resumed flights to China in 2023 and now offers services between the capitals twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays, its website booking service showed.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/north-korea-china-pyongyang-beijing-first-train-5988071
