REAL CHINA! 东北 Dandong City! Sinuiju, North Korea, Hushan Great Wall, Yalu River Broken Bridge!!!
Join me as I travel to the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong (Liaoning Province) - 辽宁丹东 - where we'll be just a stones throw away from Sinuiju, North Korea! Just across the Yalu River you can literally see North Korean troops at the border as well as peasants working the fields! In this video we explore Dandong, we visit the Great Wall of China (at Hushan) 虎山长城, as well as the Yalu River Broken Bridge 鸭绿江断桥! We even try some of the 'interesting' local specialties! Come on - what are you waiting for! Travel dongbei!
Looking at Dandong, China across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Korea
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Crossing the Yalu river by train from Sinuiju (North-Korea) to Dandong (China)
From the sober landscape of North-Korea to the big buildings with neon lights in China. A surrealistic experience!
Yalu River - The Broken Bridge, Dandong Red-Town, China
Yalu River - The Broken Bridge, Dandong, China
THE SAFEST WAY TO LOOK AT NORTH KOREA IS FROM CHINA AND THE YALU RIVER
Despite our apprehensions as Americans, we rolled the dice on a tour of the North Korea coastline on the Yalu River. It ended up being a great experience. We got to see real life in North Korea. We got the boat ride in Dandong, China for 50 CNY.
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The Yalu River Bridge was meant to foster trade and commerce between the two countries. But now it sits empty on the Chinese side, and the North Korean side ends abruptly in a field.
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Crossing the Yalu river from Dandong to Sinuiju
China-North Korea border crossing by train
Yalu River Across From North Korea - 4K
Shot in Dandong, China and the Yalu River.
See North Korea on the other side.
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Exploring the North Korea and China Friendship Bridge and Broken Bridge
Dandong, China (formerly Andong prior to 1945) is a city of 2 million inhabitants, situated on the Yalu River in China's southeast Liaoning province. Dandong is unique in that it is China's largest border city on the Sino-North Korean border, facing the DPRK border city of Sinuiju. China is responsible for around 40% of North Korea's export trade and a large portion of that trade passes through Dandong to Sinuiju and vice versa.
As many as 5 million Chinese tourists visit Dandong annually to catch a glimpse into life in the Hermit Kingdom, with upwards of 10,000 of those Chinese tourists travelling across the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge to visit Sinuiju.
Dandong is well off the beaten track when it comes to tourism. For those who travel here this is their only chance to have a glimpse into life of the Hermit Kingdom. For the high majority this is as close as they get to North Korea. Local Chinese companies have set up DPRK-themed boat tours, photo opportunities with Korean costumes, as well as North Korean goods such as stamps, cigarettes, alcohol, and clothing.
One of the biggest attractions of Dandong is the Broken Bridge. Located directly next to Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, the Broken Bridge was bombed by the U.S Military during the Korean War. Though it was repaired several times during the war, the DPRK decided not to repair the Broken Bridge for good at the end of the war, leaving it broken as a reminder of the destruction caused by the Americans during the war.
In this video, YPT North Korea Tour Manager Rowan Beard takes us along the waterfront and Dandong and for a tour of the Broken Bridge.
YPT offers a Dandong City Tours ( as well as day tours into North Korea to explore the border city of Sinuiju (
Yalu River Broken Bridge（鴨綠江斷橋） between China and North Korea.
The bridge to nowhere and the river that borders two different worlds.
The video was taken on Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge.(中朝友誼大橋)
Crossing border Dandong (China) to Shinuiju (North Korea)
crossing Yalu River, April 2014
Exploring North Korea From The Yalu River
The Yalu river (Known in Korean is Amonkgang) runs 790km along along the border of China and North Korea. In both Chinese and Korean its name means “duck green,” which refers to the color of the river. Visitors to the Yalu are often struck by the fact that China and North Korea are only a few meters from each other in some places along the river.
In the early years of both the PRC and DPRK, North Korea was perhaps the most industrialized country in East Asia, owed in part to heavy industrialization by Japan during its occupation of Korea (1910-1945), as well as heavy Soviet investment and subsidies after 1945. At that time, the North Korean side of the river was the more developed and it was common for ethnic Koreans living in China to return to North Korea for better living conditions.
Since the 1970s, however, the Chinese side of the Yalu has seen tremendous growth. Today, the Chinese border city of Dandong is bustling with traffic and construction whereas the opposite North Korean city, Sinuiju, remains – shall we say – unspoiled by bourgeoisie and capitalist ideologies.
As we covered in our last video on the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge and Broken Bridge, Dandong is a popular destination for tourists wanting a closer look at China's enigmatic neighbor. Along the river near the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, there are a number of companies offering boat tours which will can bring you a little nearer to the North Korean side of the river where one can see details about the daily lives of Koreans. In this video, we decided to check out one of the Chinese-North Korea Boat Tours ourselves and to take you along for the ride.
YPT offers a Dandong City Tours ( as well as day tours into North Korea to explore the border city of Sinuiju (
Train No.98 Dandong (China) to Pyongyang 평양 (DPRK) passing by Yalu river in Dandong on 25.01.2020
Put into service on May 21st, 1954, K27/K28 is currently the only pair of direct passenger trains connecting China and North Korea. The trains operated by China depart from Beijing every Monday and Thursday and return from Pyongyang every Wednesday and Saturday; those operated by North Korea leave Beijing every Wednesday and Saturday and depart from Pyongyang every Monday and Thursday. Actually, the Chinese trains are running daily forth and back between Beijing and Dandong with 14 carriages, including 7 hard sleeper carriages, 4 hard seat carriages, 1 soft sleeper carriage, 1 dining carriage and 1 luggage carriage. On Mondays and Thursdays, a soft sleeper carriage and a hard sleeper carriage with international passengers are joined on, which are unloaded at Dandong and then join onto another locomotive to Pyongyang. When returns back to Dandong from Pyongyang, they are unloaded and joined back onto the train to Beijing.
In addition to K27, passengers can also go to Dandong to take another daily train No.98 to Pyongyang. It departs from Dandong at 10:00 and arrives in Pyongyang at 15:30.
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Dandong is a city on China’s border with North Korea. It has been the main route for China and North Korea to conduct trade and a barometer of Sino-North Korean relations. However, trade has been suspended due to the implementation of UN sanctions against Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. Some of the businesses have gone underground.
Yalu Bridge, Dandong.
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Being at 500 meters from North-Korea fells like being in front of an open-sky inferno. Yalu Broken Bridge, Dandong, China.
The Broken Bridge to North Korea (Dandong, China)
We traveled by train from Shenyang to Dandong, China. There we visited the Yalu River Broken Bridge. This was the site of the Americans infamous bombing raid in 1950. It was on this bridge we also met several friendly Chinese women.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Dandong, China
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List of Best Things to do in Dandong, China
Yalu River Broken Bridge
Yalu River Park
North Korean border at Dandong
China and North Korea Friendship Bridge
Korean War Memorial
Yalu River Bridge
Jinjiangshan Park
Baoguang Temple
New Mart
Boat Cruise between Dandong,China and Sinuiju North Korea.
Boat Cruise on Yalu River between Dandong,China & Sinuiju,North Korea.
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Yalu River boat ride Dandong - North Korea
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Opening of bridge linking N. Korea and China delayed indefinitely: Chinese state
Once rosy relations between North Korea and China have soured since Kim Jong-un assumed power in the North a few years ago.
And in a clear indication of the frayed ties, a multi-million dollar bridge... that was supposed to boost trade between the two countries... stands unused well after its scheduled opening date.
Park Ji-won tells us more.
This is the New Yalu River Bridge,... linking the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong to North Korea′s border city of Sinuiju.
The 3-kilometer-long structure was scheduled to open late last month,... but Chinese state media reports the opening has been pushed back indefinitely.
China footed the entire cost of the 350-million U.S. dollar project,... expecting the bridge to boost bilateral trade.
But after four years of work,... facilities and roads linking the bridge into the border cities remain unfinished.
Satellite images taken in September also show that North Korea hasn′t started building customs facilities.
Compared to pictures taken in October of last year,... we see no improvements at all.
In fact,... some buildings have been torn down during the time.
China and North Korea delayed laying roads linking the bridge to the cities because Beijing is not happy with Pyongyang′s nuclear programs and North Korea is unhappy with its current relationship with Beijing. I don′t think the bridge will open until the latter half of next year.
Watchers say the hold up completing the bridge,... which was supposed to handle some 80 percent of goods passing between both countries,... reflects the sour relations between the once strong allies.
PARK Ji-won, Arirang News.