China, North Korea open long-delayed border bridge

You've seen trucks lining up there along the bridge, Chinese trucks trying to get over flags, waving and adorning the entire road. I think it's really a symbol of how the ties between these two countries have improved in recent years and how they're trying really to boost those connections. You can think back to the major summit where Xi Jinping met with Kim Jong-un in Beijing in 2018, September. that was a big news story where we saw those two leaders coming together with Russia's Putin as well and a symbol of the diplomatic efforts that both sides have been putting in to try and close in that relationship now but it's not just symbolic this is also a big trade bridge the area in China on the other side Dandong that city heavily relies on trade coming over from North Korea and North Korea itself heavily relies on China different estimates between 90 and 95 percent of North Korea's total trade going to China China's trade with North Korea rose some 25 percent last year to 2.3 billion U.S. dollars this bridge as the biggest but one of 17 links between the two countries is now set to increase hopefully that trade that at will be the thinking of the politicians in North Korea. Chinese Premier Li Chang said he hopes that this can symbol the turning over of a new leaf, a new chapter for relations between the two countries.