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ir Koryo flight to Pyongyang 3. Pan from right to left of tourists checking in for the flight 4. Mid of tour guide holding papers with passenger's visas 5. Close of tourist's visa to North Korea 6. Close of Air Koryo boarding card to Pyongyang 7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Ms. Wu, passenger: "I want to see what the past is like, how different it is from what we have now. North Korea is a mysterious country, and it has kept close ties with China, including our involvement in the Korean War. It will be an emotional trip for me." 8. Cutaway of passengers waiting inside the airport for their flight 9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhu Jianliang, Korean War veteran travelling to Pyongyang: "Yes of course, I want to go back to visit. It is just nostalgia. Those four years I spent there were not easy." 10. Mid of departures board, including flight bound for Pyongyang 11. Passengers walking around the Pudong International airport terminal hall 12. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Jin Song, Shanghai representative for Air Koryo "If this (route) works well between Shanghai and Pyongyang and if the customers are satisfied, we will probably open more destinations in Guangdong, Nanjing, Xi'an, and Chengdu." 13. Various of Pudong Airport runaway with planes (please not these shots do not show the Air Koryo plane that is bound for Pyongyang) June 30, 2011 14. Wide interior of Jinjiang Tours travel agency in Shanghai 15. Mid shot of travel agency staff showing brochure to a customer 16. Close of North Korea tourism brochure 17. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xie Jianxiao, marketing manager of the Korean Department at Shanghai Jin Jiang Tours: "For European tourists, they might feel it is hard to follow the rules. But for Chinese tourists, we share a similar history, so they prefer to re-experience the past." 18. Wide person walking up the stair of the travel agency stairs with posters promoting North Korean tours on the wall 19. Close of poster promoting North Korea tours 20. Set-up of Professor Shi Yuanhua, director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Fudan University, walking towards library 21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Shi Yuanhua, director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Fudan University: "We (Chinese government) used to regard the Korean Peninsula as problem due to the nuclear tension. But we have now had the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and we are also trying to encourage communications on economic development in North Korea. This is a rapid development." 22. Close of Shi reading a book STORYLINE The first regular direct flight linking the capital of North Korea with China's economic powerhouse, Shanghai, departed on Friday evening with 138 Chinese tourists eager to experience the diversity of their next door neighbour. Most of the passengers boarding the Air Koryo JS-552 flight at Shanghai's Pudong Airport expected a nostalgic trip to experience the kind of society that China and its reforms have already left behind. "I want to see what the past is like, how different it is from what we have now. North Korea is a mysterious country, and it has kept close ties with China, including our involvement in the Korean War. It will be an emotional trip for me," said one of the passengers. The new flights, which take three hours, will link the two cities twice a week until 31 November when the cold winter settles in the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang has also been reluctant to abandon its nuclear plans. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/06554ceef97feba273c97f95e70dc195