March 28, 2024
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Air Koryo flight left N.Korean missile test site shortly after launch

Flight scheduled to take off about two hours after airport may have been used for missile launch

An Air Koryo flight took off from Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport less than three hours after North Korea launched a missile towards Japan from the same location, airline data showed on Friday.

The 0830 scheduled departure time of JS151 to Beijing means passengers would have been arriving at the airport to check-in shortly after the missile was launched, at 0627 Pyongyang time, where, according to test-firing precedence, Kim Jong Un would have been present

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