To a casual observer, looking across the narrow Tumen River into North Korea, it’s perhaps not easy to appreciate the significance of this part of the world. This 520 kilometre river forms the border ...

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 ...

North Korea has opened a large pub called "Tumen River Beer House" in Rason Special City on the border with Russia. It is seen as part of efforts to expand facilities targeting Russian tourists.

North Korea has completed the renovation of a railway station that links the country to Russia across the Tumen River, state media reported Thursday, in the latest sign of the two countries' closer ...

April 19 (UPI) --North Korea is restricting access to a border river and banning people from using their mobile phones in places where they can still receive signals. A source in North Hamgyong ...

Construction on a new bridge in Tumen, Jilin province, connecting China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has started, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. With an estimated investment ...

A container lorry trundles across the bridge from Tumen to North Korea, slowing to allow for speed bumps. At the far side a large portrait of North Korea's founding father Kim Il-sung gazes down from ...

A stray dog skitters back and forth on the frozen Tumen River, oblivious to the fact that he is crossing an international border. Gravel and weeds protrude through the thin layer of ice. From the ...

Northeastern China's Jilin province is going to work with its neighbors to expand tourism development in the near future. Jilin will deepen cooperation with the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, ...

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North Korea has completed the renovation of a railway station that links the country to Russia across the Tumen River, state media reported Thursday, in the latest sign of the two countries' closer ...