China to allow N.Korea airline to fly between Xi'an and Pyongyang: media

China will allow North Korea’s Air Koryo to offer flights between Xi’an and Pyongyang from July, the state-run Xi’an Evening News reported Thursday, citing the central Chinese city’s tourism authority. This would make Xi’an the fifth Chinese city with an air link to the North Korean capital after Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai and Chengdu, the newspaper said. Several tour agencies in Xi’an, home to China’s famed Terracotta Army of life-sized sculptures, planned to develop tourism products for North Koreans, the paper said. There were charter flights from Xi’an to Pyongyang about eight years ago and “the response was strong,” the newspaper said, without specifying the operators.<br/>