monopoly on Macau<\/a> for decades, has been accused of associating with organized triad societies throughout Asia, and is said to have close ties to the Kim family in North Korea.<\/p>\nAbout Air Koryo <\/b><\/h2>\n
North Korea’s airline fleet consists of 18 aircraft, all of which were purchased from Russia. Reviews posted to online airline site SkyTrax are good at 6\/10 based on 53 reviews.<\/p>\n
“Beijing to Pyongyang. Comparing an intra-European flight of two hours and this flight, practically no differences: clean aircraft, nice stewardesses, punctual, simple food, good and attentive service, a normal standard,” one verified review explained. Another said the aircraft was “clean with immaculately presented and polite cabin attendants.” <\/span><\/p>\nHowever, others questioned security with the “ancient” airplanes, and fact that attendants didn’t require passengers to turn off their electronics or even be in their seats during takeoff and landing.<\/span><\/p>\nAir Koryo currently has regularly scheduled flights to China’s Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenyang, and Russia’s Vladivostok.<\/p>\n
The airline previously operated to Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur, but that route was canceled after the February 2017 assassination of Kim Jong Nam \u2013 the half-brother of Kim Jong Un and eldest son of former Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il.<\/p>\n
It is widely believed that his murder was directed by his half-brother. Nam, known for fancying Macau’s casinos, was attacked by two women at Kuala Lumpur who covered his face with a rag soaked in a nerve agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Macau airport will soon begin welcoming two flights a week from North Korea’s state-owned Air Koryo airlines, with direct service to the Hermit Kingdom’s Pyongyang capital. North Koreans are barred from leaving their country without the explicit consent from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the regime controlled by controversial Supreme Leader Kim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":110187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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