BEIJING: A Chinese city has opened a new border crossing with North Korea – fitted with radiation detectors – even as talks between Washington and Pyongyang have languished over disagreements for nuclear sanctions relief.
New gateway: A tour bus driving past the border between China and North Korea as it makes its way to North Korea. — AFPA Chinese city has opened a new border crossing with North Korea – fitted with radiation detectors – even as talks between Washington and Pyongyang have languished over disagreements for nuclear sanctions relief.
The project cost 280 million yuan and the city estimated 500,000 tonnes of goods and 200,000 people would cross through the new port each year. But the meeting broke up without a statement or even a lunch as the two sides disagreed over walking back Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme in exchange for loosening sanctions.Chinese tourism to the North has picked up as relations between the countries have improved in recent years.China has long been worried about any fallout from North Korea’s nuclear activities and Jilin was rocked by an earthquake after a massive bomb test across the border in September 2017.
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