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North Korea holds first Pyongyang Worldwide Marathon since borders have been sealed throughout COVID pandemic

Editorial Board Published July 13, 2025
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North Korea hosted the primary Pyongyang Worldwide Marathon in six years on Sunday, welcoming worldwide runners to the remoted autocratic nation that closed its borders to all outsiders in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

The thirty first Pyongyang Worldwide Marathon drew greater than 500 contributors, together with over 200 worldwide runners, who got here from nations together with North Korea‘s neighbors and allies China and Russia.

Open to each professionals and amateurs, the occasion featured a marathon and half-marathon, together with 10-kilometer and 5-kilometer races, in response to data offered by the British journey company Koryo Excursions, which is predicated in China and organizes journeys to North Korea for international vacationers.

Contributors participate within the thirty first Pyongyang Worldwide Marathon at Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 6, 2025, as a part of celebrations marking the start of North Korea’s founding chief Kim Il Sung in 1912.

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The one method for international guests to get into North Korea to participate within the race is to purchase a roughly $2,500 ticket to hitch one in every of Koryo Excursions’ package deal journeys to the so-called Hermit Kingdom. Those that took half on this 12 months’s race from overseas first needed to get to Beijing for the flight to Pyongyang. The six-day tour package deal supplied by Koryo was centered across the marathon.

The race route began at Kim II Sung Stadium within the North Korean capital, the place greater than 50,000 individuals have been gathered to cheer the runners on. Based on the marathon’s official web site, the round route took in “many of the iconic buildings, monuments and streets” of Pyongyang earlier than “heading out into the countryside just outside of the urban center” after which looping again.

A North Korean runner was the primary to cross the end line in the principle occasion, in response to the nation’s state-run tv.

Runners from america, South Korea and Malaysia have been reportedly excluded from this 12 months’s occasion registration because of ongoing diplomatic rigidity between these nations and North Korea.

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Contributors participate within the thirty first Pyongyang Worldwide Marathon in Pyongyang on April 6, 2025, as a part of celebrations marking the start of North Korea’s founding chief Kim Il Sung in 1912.

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The Russian Embassy in North Korea mentioned in a social media publish that 5 Russian nationals had participated within the occasion, with embassy employees and their households coming to cheer them on.

The U.S. and lots of of its shut allies have imposed a variety of sanctions on North Korea — along with multilateral sanctions adopted by the United Nations Safety Council — for its repeated weapons and nuclear assessments. Extra just lately, the U.S. has additionally sanctioned Pyongyang for its provision of troops and different assist for Russia because it continues its three-year battle on neighboring Ukraine.

The U.S. State Division has for years warned People towards touring to North Korea, with its highest stage of alert — a “Do not travel” advisory — in place “due to the continuing serious risk of arrest and … the critical threat of wrongful detention.”

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