I clicked on this so excited for news and then… 💔
But in all seriousness, looking at the pattern of development, you have the fifth and final stage of the Hwasong District in Pyongyang currently being built. You have the 20x10 Regional Development Project, we are in its third year and it will be complete by the end of 2033. Not to mention factories, hospitals, schools, farms, and all sorts of things cropping up around the country.
I can’t help but feel that after all this work is done, the next phase will have to be transport. Which admittedly they are building new roads everywhere as well, but I recall Kim Jong Un mentioning to Moon Jae In that the DPRK railways were in an embarrassing state.
I watched a docu-vlog on YouTube regarding the Lao HrSR and the Lao team actually being students in Chinese universities learning about building HrSR. It makes sense that there are an educated group of DPRK citizens who may have already studied this in China or are in the process of studying it, and planning for an improvement in rail.
I could personally see a HrSR line between Sinuiju and Pyongyang and then another one between Pyongyang and Wonsan to start with, with the rest of the rail network being upgraded.
For context, there are only three parties to the Korean War ceasefire.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is, well, obvious. Any discussions about the war has to include them and that makes sense.
The Chinese People’s Volunteers was dissolved with no party inheriting their responsibilities. In other words, they are not needed for any discussions about the war.
The United Nations Command is an organisation created by the United Nations at a time when the Soviet Union was not attending the UNSC, and the China seat was held by the KMT. Meaning that the only veto powers present at the time were the United States, their vassal state Taiwan, and the United Kingdom and France. This meant that the United States effectively had command over the United Nations and the United Nations Command is really a front for the United States.
Because of this, the only two parties in the Korean War are quite literally the DPRK and the United States. Nothing south Korea does is relevant or frankly even matters in the context of the war. Despite it being on their turf, they aren’t even a party to the war.