News Russia plans to build $40M checkpoint on its side of new bridge to North KoreaTender documents outline high costs for dog kennels, toilets and other facilities, highlighting corruption potential ![]() Russia plans to spend nearly $40 million to build a checkpoint on its side of a new vehicle bridge connecting to North Korea, NK Pro analysis of tender documents shows, with $2 million dog kennels and $70,000 toilets raising concerns about possible corruption and kickbacks. Rosgranstroy, the agency overseeing border facilities, launched a tender on June 11 to hire subcontractors for the work, with the bid set to close on June 27, according to publicly available data. The crossing will sit on the Russian end of the bridge that Pyongyang and Moscow began building in late April across the Tumen © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |