Russia and North Korea opened the primary street bridge throughout their shared border on Monday, a improvement Russian officers hailed as boosting the nations’ deepening ties.
The bridge over the Tumen River is 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) lengthy and has two lanes and can enable as much as 300 autos a day to cross by a newly constructed border crossing level, the Russian authorities mentioned in a press release.
“I’m satisfied that the enlargement of transport infrastructure close to the border will give a robust enhance to the additional improvement of commerce, financial, technological, scientific and cultural cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea,” mentioned Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who took half within the opening ceremony by way of video hyperlink.
Relations and change packages between Russia and North Korea have been flourishing in recent times, with North Korea supplying ammunitions and troops to assist Russia’s battle in opposition to Ukraine.
North Korea has been receiving Russian tourists since February 2024 amid slowly easing pandemic curbs.
North Korea and Russia, that are already served by a railway bridge and air service, agreed in 2024 to assemble a bridge for vehicles over the Tumen River, which runs alongside North Korea’s borders with Russia and China. Building began last year.
