Photo : YONHAP News
Passenger train services linking North Korea and China, suspended due to COVID-19, have resumed for the first time in six years.
Yonhap News Agency captured images of a Pyongyang-Beijing train crossing the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge over the Yalu River at 4:23 p.m. Thursday, China Standard Time.
While some carriages were fully curtained, passengers in other cars were seen looking out at the scenery on the Chinese side.
Earlier in the day, Japan’s Nikkei also reported that a passenger train traveling from China’s Dandong to Pyongyang had crossed the bridge around 10 a.m.
Passenger train services between North Korea and China were suspended in January 2020 after Pyongyang closed its borders due to COVID-19.
According to China’s railway authority, passenger trains between Pyongyang and Beijing will run in both directions on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.