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North Korea’s Air Koryo resumes Pyongyang – Kuwait service

Experts, weary of possible sanctions breaches, warn of Pakistani refuelling point

North Korea’s state airline Air Koryo resumed flying to Kuwait City on Tuesday, data published by Flightradar 24 has shown.

Following a refuelling pause at Pakistan’s Islamabad International Airport, an Air Koyro Tupolev TU 204-300 arrived in Kuwait City on Tuesday, the data showed.

Flight tracking data showed that as of Thursday, the Air Koryo plane was scheduled to fly back to North Korea at 16:01 local time, on a route that may include a stop-off in Pakistan.

“These passenger services take-on fuel in Islamabad before continuing to Kuwait through Pakistani and Iranian airspace,” a North Korea aviation expert who