North Korea will provide workers and some materials for the construction of a road bridge across the border with Russia, the press service of the Ministry of Eastern Development reports.
Technical specialists from Russia and the DPRK will hold consultations in June on the construction of a road bridge between the two countries. It is assumed that the DPRK will provide labor resources and part of the construction materials, and the Russian side will provide the equipment and building materials necessary for construction.
As Deputy Minister for Development of the Far East Alexander Krutikov said, at these consultations it is planned to calculate all technical parameters, the required amount of equipment and materials, and also determine the construction time frame.
The head of the department, Alexander Galushka, spoke about the construction of a bridge on the border between Russia and the DPRK at the end of March. According to him, the government has instructed the Ministry of Transport to study this issue, and a working group has already been created. As a first step, Galushka added, they could build a pontoon crossing.
In April, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs of the DPRK Lee Gwan Geun, at a meeting with the acting governor of the Primorsky Territory, Andrei Tarasenko, proposed signing a memorandum of intent to build a bridge across the border Tumannaya River. According to the acting governor, the authorities proposed to build a bridge and a checkpoint with federal money as part of the Primorye development program.
