North Korea appears to have abandoned efforts to connect the Chinese funded $350m new Yalu River suspension bridge to domestic infrastructure, satellite imagery published at the end of September reveals.

The September 25 Google Earth imagery, which shows the North Korean side of the bridge connecting to a half-mile long highway that abruptly stops in farmland, indicates no construction to have taken place on the DPRK side of the bridge since the fourth quarter of 2013.

The lack of North Korean infrastructure connecting to the bridge in satellite imagery chimes with an October 30 report by China’s Global Times, which