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The first-ever Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival was held in September last year
PUBLISHED : Monday, 28 August, 2017, 5:49pm
UPDATED : Monday, 28 August, 2017, 5:52pm
North Korea has cancelled this year’s Wonsan Air Show, travel agents said Monday,
with reports suggesting tightened travel restrictions by several countries due to nuclear tensions with Pyongyang could be behind the move.
The event had been planned to take place every two years, but North Korea said in March the first was so successful that it was bringing forward the second edition.
But the gathering, scheduled for late September,
was cancelled by the North Korean Preparatory Committee
due to “current geopolitical circumstances”,
specialist website NK News reported, citing an email from the organisers.
Britain updated its advice at the weekend to urge its citizens against “all but essential travel”.
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK cited diplomatic sources as saying the reason for the cancellation was unclear. It said there was speculation it could be part of the North’s efforts to save fuel in the face of increasingly tough United Nations Security Council sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
Oil is not currently subject to sanctions but fuel prices jumped in Pyongyang earlier this year, prompting suggestions that the rise was driven by a fear of restrictions being imposed.
Specialist tour agencies which had scheduled trips to the air show said they had cancelled them.
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