North Korean tourist route resumes
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A tourist route between China and the North Korea has resumed, a year after it was suspended.
Xinhua reports that a charter flight carrying 71 Chinese tourists departed from Yanji, in northeast China’s Jilin province, on Sunday, bound for the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
Flights will now operate every Thursday and Sunday offering a four- or five-day trip to North Korea. The itinerary will include tours of Pyongyang, Mount Kumgang, Mount Myohyang-san and Panmunjom, an abandoned village close to the border with South Korea.
Chi Jinnyu, general manager of a travel agency in Yanji, told the Chinese news agency that tickets for the first three flights have already sold out. The four- and five-day trips cost CNY4,080 and CNY4,480 (US$663 and US$728) per person respectively. The tours will run until 17 October 2014.
The route between Yanji and Pyongyang opened in July 2012, but services were suspended last year due to tensions in North Korea.
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