North Korea plans to promote domestic tourist destinations to Russian travelers at an exhibition in Moscow early next year, according to a top Russian official, amid growing expectations for closer cooperation and the resumption of full-fledged air service between the two countries.

DPRK delegates are set “to organize an exposition and presentation of Korean tourist destinations” at a trade show in the Russian capital in March 2024, natural resources and ecology minister Alexander Kozlov reportedly told the state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta last Thursday.

The two countries are actively working on “increasing the tourist traffic of both Russian and Korean citizens,” Kozlov