First direct passenger flight between Moscow and Pyongyang takes off

The first direct passenger flight between Moscow and Pyongyang in some three decades has taken off.

This past Sunday evening a Pyongyang-bound flight by Russia's Nordwind Airlines departed from Moscow.

Each flight can accommodate about four hundred passengers and takes around eight hours.

Tickets cost roughly 5-hundred-60 U.S. dollars.

Prior to this route the only direct flight between Russia and North Korea was the Vladivostok-Pyongyang route.

Russia is also reportedly considering a direct route to Wonsan on North Korea's east coast.