The 10-lane border crossing facility to service the new bridge will process 2,850 people and nearly 300 vehicles daily.

After Russia claimed to have retaken the Kursk region from Ukraine, North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it had sent soldiers to fight in Moscow’s war.

North Korea and Russia have started building a bridge that will be the first ever road link between the two countries. Satellite images showed work has begun on both banks of the Tumen River, close to the Russian border town of Khasan.