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Russian Post is resuming deliveries of letters, postcards, parcels, and postal deliveries for blind and visually impaired recipients to North Korea, Russian Post has stated. Postal deliveries between the two countries were suspended in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Parcel delivery services to North Korea resumed in June 2025. Private individuals and legal entities can now send letters and parcels weighing up to 20 kilograms. The post is delivered by air from Moscow to Vladivostok and transported from there to Pyongyang by Air Koryo.
Russian Post employs about 265,000 people and has over 38,000 post offices, with its headquarters in Moscow. The North Korean Postal Service is operated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Communication Maintenance Bureau, which oversees postal communications, telegrams, telephone services, TV broadcasts, newspapers, and other related matters. Each North Korean province has a branch of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, and each “Ri” (village) has a postal service office to deliver letters, packages, and telegrams.
Much of the North Korean postal service runs on green energy. In 2016, Naenara reported that the Soho branch of the post office in Mundok County, South Phyongan Province, has established a post and telecommunications service system powered by wind turbines and solar panels. In 2020, the Voice of Korea reported that officials of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications had set up a photovoltaic power system in Pyongyang, while the Post Office in South Pyongan Province had completed its electric power generation system by methane, providing sufficient electricity needed for its operation.
