First train to Pyongyang from Beijing in six years

The first passenger train service between Beijing and Pyongyang is set to leave China’s capital on Thursday, ending a six-year gap, as China moves to shore up cross-border infrastructure and ⁠rebuild ties with its neighbour. Train K27 will arrive in the North Korean capital at 6:07 p.m. on Friday, after a journey of 24 hours and 41 minutes skirting north of the Bohai Sea with a stopover in the border city of Dandong.
China and North Korea are “friendly neighbours” and a cross-border passenger train service facilitates people-to-people exchanges.
China also backs stronger communication between both sides to ease such exchanges.
The service was suspended when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020.