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 ...

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.

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.

And in order to escape from North Korea, I have to cross the Tumen River. When I just got to China, then I got captured, and I was sent back to North Korea right away.

Close by is the Tumen river that gently cuts through all three countries. It is China’s gateway into the Sea of Japan, where it has territorial disputes with Tokyo.

BEIJING -- China, Russia and North ... The waterway, the Tumen River, flows east along the border of China and North Korea, and eventually also of Russia, before emptying into the Sea of Japan.

The Tumen River flows along more than 400 km of China’s border with North Korea, but the last 14.5 km of it lie between Russia and North Korea. A low railroad bridge across the river, which the former ...

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 ...

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 ...