After Qizil Langar, the road enters the Depsang Plains on a more or less straight route to the Dault Beg Oldi.

[10] However, the People's Liberation Army's papers are said to document a so-called "line of actual control on 7 November 1959" which runs within an earshot of the DS–DBO Road.

[12] The Chinese claim that they reached their line in 1962 and withdrew 20 kilometres as part of ceasefire, but the area was "unjustly occupied by India" in later years.

[12] During the border standoff in 2020, the Chinese forces again stationed themselves near a location called "Y-junction" or "bottleneck" in the Burtsa Nala valley, and blocked the Indian troops from patrolling to the east of it.

China was claiming 250 square kilometres of new territory that India was previously accessing, while also posing threat to the DS-DBO Road.

However, in 2011, an inquiry by the Chief Technical Examiner found that three-quarters of the road had been laid on the river bed, which is unsuitable for military use.

[4] Murgo, along this road, has the Murgo Hotspring,[16] Murgo_Gompa|Murgo Gompa of Drukpa Kagyu lineage,[17] remnants of 400 years old breastwork fortification wall (fortification of earthwork piled up to breast height to provide protection to defenders shooting over it from a standing position) built by the governor of Nubra against the invasions from Tibetan Yarkent Khanate,[16] ancient skeletal remains of mules and camels as well as the partially decomposed ancient human bodies.