{"id":15311,"date":"2024-01-17T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:49:21","slug":"friendship-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=15311","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Korea\u2013Russia Friendship Bridge<\/strong> is a rail bridge over the Tumen River. It was commissioned in 1959 as a replacement for a temporary wooden bridge. Located immediately downstream from the China\u2013North Korea\u2013Russia tripoint, the bridge is the sole crossing point on the 17 km long North Korea\u2013Russia border<\/strong>. Planks are laid between the tracks making crossing of road vehicles possible by special arrangement, but it is primarily a rail bridge. The tracks are dual gauge because the Russian railroad system uses a track gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in) while the North Korean system uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in).
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In October 2017 a fiber optic cable<\/strong> running across the bridge provided North Korea with an additional connection to the global Internet through Russia’s TransTelekom provider, a subsidiary of Russian national railway operator Russian Railways. It allows the country to be less dependent on its primary internet connection through China Unicom (similarly running over the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge), after it was the target of a DDoS attack during the 2017 North Korea crisis.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Embracing the Unity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Scenes from the Workers’ Paradise<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Google street views from the area of Russia just northeast of the Friendship Bridge (as indicated by the little danglin’ Google person):
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Longhu Coffee Shop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I’d like a Flat White Pistachio Latte Honduran Americano, Comrade<\/mark><\/strong><\/em>.
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The Tri-point: The point of Unity for Russia, China, and North Korea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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North Korea: World Leader in the Battle Against Covid-19<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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North Korea: All Around Ass-Kick of a Country<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Come for the Repression – Stay for the Medals!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Korea\u2013Russia Friendship Bridge is a rail bridge over the Tumen River. It was commissioned in 1959 as a replacement for a temporary wooden bridge. Located immediately downstream from the China\u2013North Korea\u2013Russia tripoint, the bridge is the sole crossing point on the 17 km long North Korea\u2013Russia border. Planks are laid between the tracks making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heros-not","category-north-korea","category-russia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}