Overegged?

There is an article in today's FT about North Koreans being much more bothered about the Chinese on their doorstep than they are about the Americans. Even though there are quite a few of them sitting across the border in South Korea - getting on for 30,000 of these last according to reference 2. Maybe there there is track record, rather as there is between us and the Irish, or between the Poles and the Russians. The FT story is that the north Koreans resent the fact that it was the Chinese who rescued them from the Korean War in the 1950's - a war which in the Wikipedia telling at reference 5 was pretty awful for the Koreans.

The article was pointed up with the snap above, which caught my eye as the cable stay design of the central span looked just like the sort of thing we put up, for example the bridge over the Thames at the Dartford Tunnel.

Having got past the old bridge over the Yalu River, I got to reference 3 which tells me that, after various delays, the bridge was likely to open soon. So was the FT overegging its story a bit?

Next stop, gmaps, where there is no Street View but there is satellite view (gmaps reference 40.0357371, 124.3680333). Bridge all present and correct although connectivity on the Korean side (right) does not look that clever.

Next stop, after various webpages talking about a bridge to nowhere, a rather incoherent piece from reference 4, a piece which has now vanished, but which suggested that the project got caught up in various top table squabbles following the death of North Korean leader's father. A big project which has been largely paid for by the Chinese, who might well be a bit cross.

So maybe the bridge and its caption are fair comment after all.

References

Reference 1: North Korea looks across the border for its biggest threat: Kim Jong Un’s regime is more worried about infiltration from China than war with the US - Christian Davies, FT - 2021.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Korea.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yalu_River_Bridge.

Reference 4a: https://www.asahi.com/.

Reference 4b: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/. This one in English.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War.