Coronavirus: North Korean train makes first reported crossing into China since border lockdown

Chinese brokers said they expect the resumption of regular trade with North Korea as soon as Monday, 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. “My business partner in North Korea told me on Friday that the land border will reopen to cargo freight on January 17,” a Chinese commodities trader in the border town of Dandong told Reuters. “By Saturday the whole import-export community here has heard about this and people have began snapping up carriages to move their cargo over,” he…