{"id":110170,"date":"2024-08-19T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-koryo-north-korea-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:00:11","slug":"north-korea-reopens-to-tourists-5-fun-facts-about-its-national-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=110170","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Reopens To Tourists: 5 Fun Facts About Its National Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    After almost five years of being closed to foreigners after the Covid pandemic, the reclusive country of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/north-korea\/\">North Korea<\/a> is finally reopening one city to foreign tourists in December. At least two China-based tour operators will be able to take tourists once again to visit the mountainous northern city of Samjiyon (<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/china-approves-resumption-north-korea-flights\/\">China approved the resumption of flights to Pyongyang in 2023<\/a>). Here are five fun facts about Air Koryo &#8211; North Korea&#8217;s flag carrier (although travelers should note that Americans are typically forbidden to visit North Korea by the <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/north-korea-travel-advisory.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >State Department<\/a>).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Air Koryo is no ordinary airline, it does operate a limited number of international and domestic flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12683,396,231,1699,5978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-koryo","category-aircraft","category-asia","category-korea","category-north-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170\/revisions\/110171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}