Russian diplomats are forced to leave North Korea on foot

A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on foot, as they pulled a cart on the railway and put their bags and luggage on it after North Korean President Kim Yong Unung closed his country's borders to combat the Corona virus, according to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"In view of the closure of the borders for nearly a year and the suspension of traffic, a number of members of the Russian embassy in North Korea had to make a long journey on foot to reach the homeland," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its Facebook account.

The journey of the group of Russian diplomats, consisting of eight people, took 32 hours on the train, then two hours by bus, and then they used a railway carriage to put their luggage and their children on it and pushed it by hand about a kilometer to cross the Russian border.

And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs showed a video recording of the embassy members, their children and their luggage on the cart, while two of them were pushing the cart to cross the bridge separating the two countries.

Interfax news agency reported Friday morning that the group boarded the plane to Moscow from the Russian city of Vladivostok, in the far east.

North Korea has always claimed that it is free of Corona virus infections, but it has closed its borders and stopped travel with other countries.

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