The bridge was announced on June 2024. The construction began on April 2025. I check KCNA daily and I haven’t seen updates from DPRK lately. It may have been reported by Russia.
a 2.9 mile bridge for 73 million nonce island dollars? thats so cheap.
Since when do RU and NK share a border?! I better check a map but I half remember something called China between them.
Russia can have a little border, as a treat
Russia hooks around the northeast slightly so they have a short border by Khasan
You’d think so but actually no, they do share a border. You can take a train from Moscow all the way to Pyongyang without passing through China. The journey takes about 200 hours.
This is cool and I didn’t know about it. I wonder if there’s tension between Russia and China over that region that wraps over NK.
Not that i know of. I mean yeah that area used to be part of China up until the 19th century, but then again so was Mongolia. No, as far as i know China and Russia settled their border issues decades ago, after some unfortunate incidents involving border skirmishes (though not in the Far East but more in Central Asia iirc) during the Sino-Soviet split, and both have been pretty happy with the situation since then. It shows that countries don’t need to go to war and don’t need to have permanent tensions over border disputes if they just talk it out and reach a mutually acceptable compromise. India should take some inspiration from Russia in this regard and stop being so belligerent on their border issues with China.
Here's a map of the Russian Far East:
