The secretive communist state banned tourists, jetted out diplomats and severely curtailed border traffic and trade after the pandemic began.
On Tuesday, a North Korean commercial jet landed in Beijing in what was the North’s first such commercial international flight known to leave the country in about 3½ years. The plane returned from Beijing later in the day, but it wasn’t known who was aboard it.traveled by land to Beijing and then took a flight to Kazakhstan to participate in an international competition.
The group of around 80 men and women wearing white track suits with the North Korean flag on the front were seen in the departure hall of Beijing’s international airport. It was the first time such a big delegation from North Korea made an international trip since the pandemic began. Cheong Seong-Chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute, said the return of workers from abroad will mean the loss of a rare source of foreign currency for North Korea, so the government will likely push to send other workers to replace them in China and Russia.that required member states to repatriate all North Korean laborers from their territories by late 2019.
Given that North Korea intends to quarantine returnees for one week, Cheong said it seems unlikely North Korea would resume receivinganytime soon. He said North Korea is expected to allow foreigners to enter the country next year if the return of its nationals does not cause any coronavirus outbreaks.
In August 2022, North Korea made a highly dubious claim to have overcome the Covid-19 pandemic. In the following month, the North resumed freight train service with China, its biggest trading partner and economic pipeline, but much of its restrictions on border crossings by individuals have remained in effect.
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