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World News Sept. 8, 2026 / 4:19 AM

N. Korea, Russia open 1st cross-border road bridge amid deepening ties

North Korea and Russia have opened a new road bridge over the Tumen River, Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday, calling it key infrastructure to help "revitalize" multifaceted cooperation.

The opening ceremony took place the previous day in Rason in North Korea and Khasan in Russia, virtually attended by North Korean Premier Pak Thae-song and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The construction began in April last year, following a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2024 in Pyongyang.

The bridge would "ensure the safe passage of various kinds of vehicles and personnel traffic," the KCNA said, offering "a guarantee for building up and reinforcing an important infrastructure for economic cooperation between the two countries and revitalizing multi-faceted cooperation including human exchange, tourism and commodity circulation."

Calling the bridge a "new symbol" of friendship between the two countries, Pak said it adds "a new dynamic movement to the overall bilateral cooperation."

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/09/08/North-Korea-Russia-new-bridge-Tumen-River/1691788852648/

Covid-19: Engineering dangerous pathogens that never existed on Earth – without inserting a kill switch

By Rhoda Wilson on September 8, 2026

Last week, Jeffrey Tucker, host of The Brownstone Show, interviewed virologist Richard K. Burt. He tells of his personal history of knowing with near certainty that the covid virus was manufactured, and the contracts that made it possible were all public. He knew from January 2020. He tried to alert the media. Silence followed.

This is essential viewing for anyone who wants a clinician’s, grant-reader’s account of how virus history, molecular engineering and financial incentives converged on covid-19.

Dr. Burt is a recently retired Northwestern University professor, Scripps faculty member and pioneer of haematopoietic stem cell transplant for autoimmune diseases. He provides the clearest explanation we’ve yet seen of the origins of covid, which he also lays out in a new book, ‘Kill Switch: The History of How Viruses Shaped Humanity and Led to COVID-19’.

Dr. Burt wrote the book for lay readers – from smallpox through the molecular-biology revolution after 1960 – after a Chinese post-doctorate told him in late December 2019 or early January 2020 that Shi Zhengli’s bat-coronavirus website had been scrubbed overnight.

He pulled National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”) grants routed through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan, saw gain-of-function work that made non-pathogenic viruses infect humans and in mid-to-late January 2020 briefed a major-network broadcaster. The reply was essentially “so what?”

Vaccines, Burt argues, have been a genuine “kill switch” for pandemics and have saved hundreds of millions of lives. The problem is the new project: engineering pathogens that never existed on Earth without inserting a molecular suicide gene or other containment – technology Burt himself published decades ago – and without serious oversight.

He walks through Fouchier’s 2012 H5N1 (influenza A, commonly known as bird flu) work, Fauci’s solo-authored 2012 paper claiming the benefits of such experiments outweigh the risk of a pandemic, the Ralph Baric–Shi Zhengli receptor-binding-domain collaboration in Nature Medicine and the later cover story that pointed away from a laboratory the US National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) had funded.

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https://expose-news.com/2026/09/08/engineering-dangerous-viruses-without-a-kill-switch/