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I doubt that’s the real reason behind opening this route. Russia has been sending North Korean troops to fight in Ukraine for them, and Moscow is a good transportation hub for this kind of operations
They have military transports, they don’t need a commercial flight to move troops. Especially not a monthly one.
Granted the scale is very different but the US sent thousands upon thousands of active duty assignments to the Middle East via commercial airlines. It was simply the most efficient way to transport troops. The dedicated transports were for critical personnel and equipment mostly. I knew several people personally who did multiple rotations over the years, every flight was commercial.
There are hundreds of transatlantic flights per day. Maybe per hour in peak times.
Here we are talking about one per month.
Russia is losing more than a thousand personnel per day in Ukraine, even a full commercial jet with 300 soldiers once a month is not going to make a difference.
North Korea opened a beach resort for Russian tourists as well. No offense to Russians who are wholesome and sane, but I think many North Koreans will be disappointed by the typical behaviour and sharp elbows of Russian tourists.
