China Border Town Can’t Shake the Blues Despite Promise of Bridge to North Korea
The bridge could revive trade with North Korea, but Dandong’s economy remains weak, with 28% fewer new home sales and mostly empty storefronts, city data shows.
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China border town can’t shake the blues despite promise of bridge to North Korea
By David Kirton and Huey Mun Leong DANDONG, China, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Chinese taxi driver Wang peered through binoculars at a North Korean flag fluttering beyond a soon-to-open bridge linking his city of Dandong with the secretive nation. "They finally ...
North Korea is opening its border — without freeing a single person
For 12 years, the bridge was there. But the road was not. In 2014, China and North Korea completed the approximately 2-mile New Amnok River Bridge connecting the two countries. China prepared the necessary facilities on its side, but North Korea failed to complete basic customs and immigration facilities. The enormous bridge crossed the Amnok […]
“The facilities on what used to be the site of a small amusement park have all been demolished, and cargo trucks have moved in. I heard these are trucks to be sold to North Korea once the New Yalu River Bridge opens.” Dandong, Liaoning Province, China, bordering North Korea’s Sinuiju. Upon arriving near the New Yalu River Bridge around 8 a.m. (local time) on the 6th, the 77th anniversary of diplomatic relations between North Korea and China, the…
(Dandong=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Hyun-jung = "All of these streetlights have been newly installed. Recently, the highway connecting road leading to the entrance of the New Yalu River Bridge was brought closer..."
At 10:40 a.m. on the 5th, in Dandong, Liaoning Province, China, about 10 black cars crossed the Xinyalu River Bridge and headed for Sinuiju, North Korea. On this day, at 2:00 p.m., the gray van left the customs clearance facility on the Chinese side and headed north via the bridge. The vacant lot under the bridge on the Chinese side doesn't have a license plate, red
China and North Korea are set to open a three-kilometer-long road bridge across the Yalu River. The construction connects the Chinese city of Tan-tung with the North Korean city of Sinuiju and was actually completed 12 years ago.
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