Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge

Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge

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official_name= Traditional Chinese: 中朝友誼橋 Simplified Chinese: 中朝友谊桥 Chosŏn'gŭl: 조중우의교 Hancha: 朝中友誼橋
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locale= Dandong, - Liaoning Province, - flagicon|China PR China and Sinŭiju, - North P'yŏngan Province, - flagicon|North Korea North Korea
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The Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge (also called the Sino-Korean or China-Korea Friendship Bridge) connects the cities of Dandong, China and Sinŭiju, North Korea. Built in 1943, it crosses the Yalu River, carrying automobile and rail traffic. (The pedestrians are not allowed to cross the bridge.) The bridge is one of the few ways to enter or leave North Korea.

About 100 meters downstream is the old bridge built in 1911, now called the "Broken Bridge" (断桥). It was bombed and half damaged on the Korean side during the Korean War in 1950 and has not been reconstructed. That bridge is now a tourist attraction on the Chinese side, to learn about the Korean War and the world's largest bridges.

Trains travel over the Friendship Bridge on a daily basis. The border is relatively porous, as the governments of China and North Korea have fairly good relations. Fact|date=February 2007 Chosongul script is common on many signs in Dandong.Fact|date=February 2007

While it is considered one bridge, the contrast between the Chinese side and North Korean side are immense. The bridge on the Chinese side is decked with flashing neon lights that light up at night while the North Korean side is left in the dark due to acute fuel shortage in North Korea.Fact|date=February 2007 Another view of this contrast is that the North Korean side is far from the downtown area, while the Chinese side is not far from downtown Dandong.

ee also

*List of China-related topics
*Foreign relations of North Korea
*List of Korea-related topics

External links

* [http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/010420/coverstory.html Eyeing North Korea]


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