{"id":243057,"date":"2026-03-12T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=243057"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:38:54","slug":"first-passenger-train-in-6-years-leaves-beijing-for-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/243057\/","title":{"rendered":"First passenger train in 6 years leaves Beijing for Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first passenger train service between the Chinese and North Korean capitals left Beijing Railway Station on Thursday, ending a six-year gap, as China moves to ‌shore up cross-border infrastructure and rebuild ties with its neighbour, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Train K27 will arrive in the North Korean capital on Friday, after a journey of 24 hours and 41 minutes, China’s railway ⁠authority said.<\/p>\n

The service was suspended when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020.<\/p>\n

North Korea is largely closed to foreign tourism, with few exceptions, largely for Russian tour groups under restricted arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first passenger train service between the Chinese and North Korean capitals left Beijing Railway Station on Thursday, ending a six-year gap, as China moves to ‌shore up cross-border infrastructure and rebuild ties with its neighbour, Reuters writes. Train K27 will arrive in the North Korean capital on Friday, after a journey of 24 hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243058,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243057\/revisions\/243058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}