Kim Jong Un just went to China on a bridge that had not been used for 12 years. The new Yalu River Bridge: 3 km, four lanes, about 310 million dollars of Chinese money, completed in 2014. It opened only this month, because the North Korean side never built the roads and the customs posts. On Saturday, Kim crossed it to Dandong: > Lay flowers at the Chinese People's Volunteers Memorial.

Kim Jong Un just went to China on a bridge that had not been used for 12 years. The new Yalu River Bridge: 3 km, four lanes, about 310 million dollars of Chinese money, completed in 2014. It opened only this month, because the North Korean side never built the roads and the customs posts. On Saturday, Kim crossed it to Dandong: > Lay flowers at the Chinese People's Volunteers Memorial.

> Met Wang Henning, No. 4 in the party, who brought Xis with blessings.

> Toured a bus factory and then drove home the same way. The timing is not coincidental. This week marks 76 years since the Chinese soldiers crossed the Yalo into the Korean War. Since September, Pyongyang also has its first road bridge to Russia. Decades of "isolation" North Korea, and now it has roads to its two important neighbors. My opinion: Sanctions build walls, Beijing builds bridges and waits 12 years for the other side to finish the road.