The first road bridge across the Tumannaya River between Russia and the DPRK has opened.

Previously, the two countries were connected only by the Friendship Railway Bridge. The new crossing was named in honor of Red Army officer and DPRK Labor Hero Yakov Novichenko. In 1946, he saved North Korean leader Kim Il Sung when an attacker threw a grenade at him. The Soviet officer covered it with his body and miraculously survived.

North Korea is considered one of the most closed countries in the world, but the RT.Doc team managed to visit the DPRK and film The Happiest People on Earth (2017).

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