Tumen

On Wednesday, there was no traffic moving on the bridge spanning separating the two sides at Tumen.

North Korea Seals Chinese Border Jeremy Page 2011

In Tumen, several Chinese businessmen who regularly visit North Korea said they expected the new regime there to tighten restrictions on their movements and commercial activities over the short term.

North Korea Seals Chinese Border Jeremy Page 2011

Somehow they took the scenic route or a detour near the Tumen River.

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Three North Korean officials were making plans to return in the spartan office where they work at the railway station in Tumen.

North Korea Seals Chinese Border Jeremy Page 2011

Mr. Ishimaru recruits his reporters in the border regions of China, home to tens of thousands of North Korean refugees who have escaped across the Yalu or Tumen rivers.

A Free Press Stirs in North Korea Melanie Kirkpatrick 2010

The Tumen River border area was not on their original itinerary and they were warned not to go near the boundary.

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As you wish: regardless of how Mitch Koss evaded capture and the two female reporters he left on the Tumen River battlefield got into this mess, … have I given any thought on how Laura and Euna can be released?

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Do you really believe the Current TV crew woke up at 4 a.m. on March 17 and together decided it might be really cool to take a sunrise stroll along the Tumen River and try to film an interview with a North Korean sentry?

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

Reverend Chun and another pastor who lives in Los Angeles (Shin Dong-chul), claim that both China and North Korea have spied on their e-mail and telephone communications for many years, so Reverend Chun believes North Korea monitored the moves of the 2 reporters in Yanji and waited for the opportunity to take action when they reached the ice of the frozen Tumen River.

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

They declined to answer questions, but a Chinese man of Korean ethnicity who was in the office and said he was a friend of theirs explained that they were posted in Tumen to help process cross-border trade—mainly food from China and steel and minerals from North Korea.

North Korea Seals Chinese Border Jeremy Page 2011