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The archetypal rider bid work between Beijing and Pyongyang is acceptable to permission China's superior connected Thursday (March 12, 2026), ending a six-year gap, as China moves to enactment up cross-border infrastructure and rebuild ties with its neighbour.
Train K27 volition get successful the North Korean superior astatine 6:07 p.m. (0907 GMT) connected Friday (March 13, 2026), aft a travel of 24 hours and 41 minutes skirting northbound of the Bohai Sea with a stopover successful the borderline city of Dandong, China's railway authorization said.
China and North Korea are "friendly neighbours" and a cross-border rider bid work facilitates people-to-people exchanges, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson told reporters connected Thursday (March 12, 2026).
China besides backs stronger connection between some sides to easiness specified exchanges, the spokesperson added.
The work was suspended erstwhile the COVID-19 pandemic broke retired successful 2020.
North Korea is mostly closed to overseas tourism, with fewer exceptions, mostly for Russian circuit groups nether restricted arrangements, accidental question agencies organising trips to the country.
Restricted tickets
The service linking the capitals volition run 4 days a week successful some directions, moving connected Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, China's railways said successful a notice.
Tickets, restricted to concern visa holders, were sold retired for Thursday's (March 12, 2026) trip, but those for March 18 were inactive available, a Beijing question bureau said.
The shorter Dandong-Pyongyang nexus volition run regular successful some directions, with the archetypal work leaving China's northeastern metropolis of Dandong at 10 a.m. connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) to get successful Pyongyang astatine 6:07 p.m., the authoritative news bureau Xinhua said.
Cross-border flights were besides halted during the pandemic.
North Korea's authorities bearer Air Koryo resumed flights to China successful 2023 and now offers services betwixt the capitals doubly play connected Tuesdays and Saturdays, its website booking work showed.
