CNN —North Korea has announced it will allow its citizens living abroad to return home in an easing of its coronavirus-era border controls.
Recent moves by North Korea, which closed its borders in early 2020 in response to the pandemic, have signaled that the country is reopening, but Pyongyang will still require even returning citizens to quarantine on arrival.
“Those who return will be put under proper medical observation at quarantine wards for a week,” it said in the announcement.
The news comes after a North Korean flight from Pyongyang arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, in what was the first known international commercial flight to leave North Korea since January 2020.
Flights between North Korea and Russia are also set to resume, with four flights between Pyongyang and Vladivostok this month.
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