It is one of Pyongyang's two oldest east–west connections via the Taedong Gang, along with the Yanggak Bridge, built in the same year.

When Chinese troops advanced near Pyongyang in the winter of 1950, thousands of civilians fled to the rubble of the bridge to cross the river in which several people were killed.

The crossing of the ruined Taedong Bridge was part of the larger evacuation of Pyongyang during the Korean War.

[2] The event was taken on December 5, 1950, by Associated Press photographer Max Desfor titled Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1951.

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