
A railway bridge over the Tumen River between North Korea and Russia is seen from a viewpoint of China, Dec. 9, 2018. Yonhap
A joint motorway bridge mission linking North Korea and Russia throughout the Tumen River is beneath approach, with completion focused by the tip of 2026, in response to a Russian report.
The Russian authorities has tasked TonnelYuzhStroi, a development firm, with designing and constructing a motorway bridge over the river on the border with North Korea, Russian information company Interfax reported Monday.
The deadline for implementing the state contract is Dec. 31, 2026, the report additionally famous.
The contract adopted the signing of an settlement in Pyongyang final June between North Korean chief Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the development of a bridge over the Tumen River on the sidelines of their broader mutual protection treaty settlement.
The motorway bridge development is predicted to facilitate freer and quicker flows of products and vacationers between the 2 nations, as they’ve steadily elevated bilateral cooperation within the economic system, navy and different fields.
The bridge will reportedly be a two-lane construction, spanning 800 meters in size and 10 m in width, and shall be constructed about 400 m downstream of one other railway bridge over the river. (Yonhap)