Cargo and passenger vessel will travel between Vladivostok and Rajin,with tourist firms expressing interest in routeNorth Korea’s increasingly frequent ballistic missile tests may occupy raised tensions globally over the country’s nuclear ambitions, but in neighbouring Russia, or entrepreneurs are eyeing another prospect: tourism. On Thursday,a ship that departed from the North Korean port of Rajin on Wednesday arrived in Vladivostok in Russia’s far east, marking the start of the first regular cargo and passenger ferry service with the “hermit kingdom”.
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Source: theguardian.com