Full access to the Tumen River could lead to more Chinese coast guard vessels in the Sea of Japan.

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 ...

Seoul, May 29 (IANS) North Korea has completed the renovation of a railway station that links the country to Russia across the Tumen River, state me ...

Vladimir Smirnov/AFP via Getty Images 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.

Russia has begun the construction of its first road bridge to North Korea over the Tumen river on the border, marking r apidly advancing bilateral ties with the isolated regional ally. The ...

Touted as a post-Cold War peace dividend, the Tumen River project was aimed at using trade to bury hostilities in a small corner of Northeast Asia and to knit the larger region together.

One railway bridge and air service already connect North Korea and Russia, and in June 2024, the two countries agreed to construct a bridge for automobiles over the Tumen River, which runs along ...

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. Chinese vessels must get ...

Why the Tumen River border could test relations between China, Russia and North Korea Using the waterway to reach the Sea of Japan, or East Sea, is a ‘dream’ for China but neighbours fear they ...