Beijing has allowed North Korea's state carrier Air Koryo to resume flights to China more than three years after they stopped amid COVID-19 restrictions, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday.
The approval comes amid signs of increased contact between North Korea and its neighbour and biggest trading partner.
Train services between the countries have been increasing, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.
Last month, a Chinese delegation visited Pyongyang to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, the first such group to travel to the reclusive state since the pandemic.
China's foreign ministry did not say when flights would resume and referred further questions to China's aviation regulator which was not immediately available to comment.
An Air Koryo employee who answered a call to the number for the airline's Shanghai office said he had no knowledge of the situation.
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