North Korea’s national airline Air Koryo will begin operating a new internal route from June 6, according to tourism sources in the country.

The new flight route will operate once a week from Uiju in Sinuiju, in the country’s northeast on the border with China to the capital city Pyongyang.

“The new route is a domestic flight, once a week … (it) goes from Pyongyang to Uiju and back again on the same day, (a) 40-minute flight,” Simon Cockerell, general manager of Koryo Tours told NK News.

“It’s apparently due to start quite soon using An-24 aircraft,” Dave Thompson, from