North Korea has opened up bridges to Russia and China – in which direction will it go?

Mr. Kim was said to have crossed the border via a newly opened bridge for his first visit to China in over a year, as the countries move to deepen ties.

Kim Jong-un has opened the borders to both his key allies in Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but for different reasons For more than a decade, local Chinese residents pilloried it as nothing more than an empty bridge that led to a North Korean vegetable patch on the other side.…