KEDO Flights to DPRK Set for July 10

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KEDO Flights to DPRK Set for July 10

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The first direct air route between South Korea and DPRK will commence around July 10, when a Koryo Airline flight is scheduled to start services between Yangyang International Airport and Seondeok Airport in Hamheung.

This will be the first time for a DPRK aircraft to repeatedly fly to the South nonstop. A high-level S. Korean government official said Tuesday that the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) and Pyongyang agreed to operate the air service between Yangyang and Seondeok, which is close to the light-water reactor construction site in Shinpo.

A Koryo Airline plane will make a trial run around July 10, flying over the sea, and the 250km flight would take approximately 40 minutes.

The source said the direct air route would operate irregularly to mainly transport the workforce for the light-water reactor project as the occasion demands, since the commencement of the construction of the reactor in August will require more people.

However, only Koryo Air flights with less than 100-passenger capacity will fly the route, since airplanes of South Korean carriers, Korean Air and Asiana, would not be able to land at Seondeok Airport, where runways are narrow and the control system is incomplete. The workforce for the light-water reactor construction is currently transported via weekly liner between the ports of Sokcho and Shinpo.

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