{"id":15011,"date":"2025-07-28T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2025-07-28T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:04:03","slug":"russia-starts-direct-flights-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15011","title":{"rendered":"Russia starts direct flights to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The first Moscow-Pyongyang flight, operated by Russia&#8217;s Nordwind Airlines, took off at 1625 GMT, according to the Sheremetyevo airport&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled to land in the North Korean capital some eight hours later.<\/p>\n<p>But initially, the route will only be serviced once a month, Russia&#8217;s transport ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Nordwind Airlines \u2014\u00a0which used to carry Russians to holiday destinations in Europe before the EU imposed a ban on Russian flights \u2014\u00a0had tickets priced at 45,000 rubles ($570).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a historical event, strengthening the ties between our nations,&#8221; Oleg, a Nordwind employee managing the flight who did not want to give his full name, told AFP at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>He also declined to say how many passengers were on board.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine. The first Moscow-Pyongyang flight, operated by Russia&#8217;s Nordwind Airlines, took off at 1625 GMT, according to the Sheremetyevo airport&#8217;s website. It is scheduled to land in the North Korean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}