N Korea train set to depart Beijing after 6-year halt
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BEIJING: Passenger train services between China and North Korea were set to resume on Thursday following a six-year hiatus, railway representatives
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N Korea train set to depart Beijing after 6-year halt
BEIJING: Passenger train services between China and North Korea were set to resume on Thursday following a six-year hiatus, railway representatives and tour agencies stated, after the link was suspended during the Covid-19 outbreak.
China is North Korea's largest trading partner and a vital source of external, economic and political backing for the isolated nuclear province.
Train journeys between the East Asian neighbours were halted in 2020 under strict frontier closures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.
However, China Railway stated that regular train services would resume on Thursday, with the first set to depart from the Chinese capital on Thursday evening bound for Pyongyang.
The K27 train would make a few stops, including at the port metro of Tianjin, and then head northeast to Dandong, a Chinese metro adjacent North Korea.
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