The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.

At present, Chinese vessels require permission from both neighbors before sailing from the final stretch of the 324-mile long Tumen River into the Sea of Japan. China also is contemplated widening ...

China has been trying to persuade Russia and North Korea to open a stretch of the Tumen River to Chinese cargo shipping for decades, a step that would provide direct access to the sea from the ...

TUMEN, China — From a riverfront park where vendors hawk popcorn and cotton candy, Peter Han gazes across the Tumen River at the landscape that is North Korea and shakes his head in despair ...

China has been seeking access to North Korean and Russian ports because of a peculiar convergence of three nations' borders on the Tumen River, where Jilin province is cut off from the Sea of ...

First, you should know that your intrepid columnist, in 2009, visited the Tumen river itself and the exact spot where Russia-China-North Korea meet, and wrote two columns.

US President Donald Trump's nuclear talks with North Korea may have faltered in recent weeks, but in the Chinese border town of Tumen, they are getting on with building a bridge.

China's communist leader Mao Zedong famously said that the two countries were "as close as lips and teeth," a relationship forged in blood and ... the melting glaciers pour into the Tumen River, ...

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.

China has been trying to persuade Russia and North Korea to open a stretch of the Tumen River to Chinese cargo shipping for decades, a step that would provide direct access to the sea from the ...