Beijing/Seoul: On Jan 16, Chinese dealers said that they anticipate the resumption of regular trade with North Korea as soon as Monday. The assumptions came after a North Korean train pulled into a Chinese border town on Sunday in the first such crossing since anti-coronavirus border lockdowns began in 2020. “By Saturday the whole import-export community here has heard about this and people have begun snapping up carriages to move their cargo over,” a vendor said. North Korea has not officially reported any COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in early 2020 and has imposed strict anti-virus measures.
