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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The Significance of a New Bridge on the Tumen River. As mentioned, in China, the signing of an agreement between Putin and Kim for early construction of a cross-border bridge across the Tumen ...

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 ...

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 ...