SEOUL: A Russian passenger jet landed at North Korea’s main airport Monday, a flight tracking site showed, completing the first commercial leg in decades between capitals of the allied countries. Russia and North Korea have pulled closer in the last year, with Pyongyang sending weapons and troops to aid Moscow’s war in Ukraine – likely in exchange for technical assistance, experts say. Tracking site Flight Aware showed Russia’s Nordwind Airlines’ Boeing 777 landing in Pyongyang at 09:15 a.m. (GMT 00:15).

Russia will launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to North Korea’s capital Pyongyang on Sunday, Russian authorities said, as the two former communist bloc allies move to…

The Moscow-Pyongyang flights operated by Russia’s Nordwind Airlines will initially operate only once a month