"North Korea has long kept tight control over foreign visitors and effectively sealed its borders at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago.
The New Yalu River Bridge, intended as an alternative and eventual replacement of the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, is expected by experts to be completed this year.
The completion of the bridge "sends a political and geopolitical message demonstrating the formation of a "North Korea-China-Russia continental triangular bloc," said Lim."
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