Europe to North Korea charter flight scheduled for 2016

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Europe to North Korea charter flight scheduled for 2016

One-off Belarus to North Korea service scheduled for May 2016

Chad O'Carroll October 9, 2015

Europe to North Korea charter flight scheduled for 2016

Tupolev Tu-154M Belavia EW-85703 - Björn Strey [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

A long-haul charter flight from eastern Europe to North Korea – the first of its kind in decades – has been scheduled for 2016, a British travel agency announced on Wednesday.

The round-trip service, between Minsk airport in Belarus to Sunan international in North Korea, will take place in May 2016, flown by Belarusian national airline Belavia.

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Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.

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