North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un made a surprise visit to China on Saturday, his first in over a year, to inaugurate the New Yalu River Bridge and reaffirm his commitment to strengthen the partnership between Pyongyang and Beijing.
\n\nKim reportedly crossed the New Yalu River Bridge on Saturday and returned to North Korea the same way after spending the day in China’s border city of Dandong, where he visited a memorial to China’s involvement in the Korean War (1950-1953) and met with a senior Chinese Communist Party official Wang Huning.
\n\nThe New Yalu River Bridge project was launched in 2010 as a symbol of cooperation and friendship between North Korea and China, financed primarily by China. The four-lane, three-kilometer bridge was actually completed 12 years ago, linking Dandong with the North Korean city of Sinuiju, but its opening was delayed indefinitely due to incomplete roads and other infrastructure on the North Korean side.
\n\nOne of the major reasons for North Korea’s tardy completion of the Sinuiju side of the bridge was a deterioration of the relationship between North Korea and China. This was accompanied by an even sharper deterioration in Kim Jong-un’s relationship with his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, who championed…
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