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Anton Sokolin
Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).
A North Korean passenger plane flew from the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to Pyongyang on Monday, over a month after the DPRK conducted its first flights to Russia since the beginning of the pandemic.
A Tu-204-100 passenger aircraft operated by North Korean national carrier Air Koryo left Vladivostok International Airport at around 1:36 p.m. KST and landed in the DPRK capital around 2:47 p.m., the aviation-tracking website FlightRadar24 showed.