Currently, rumors are spreading among North Koreans in the China-North Korea border region that China plans to intensify control over the frontier. This has led many people to worry that even the intermittent smuggling going on will completely vanish, the source said. “Products meant to be sol...
AT THE Tumen border crossing into North Korea, scrutinising the public face of a decaying Stalinist system has become a popular spectator sport. Chinese and South Korean tourists peer through high- powered binoculars at Namyang, the North Korean town on the other side of the Tumen river.Poole,...
FILE - Chinese paramilitary policemen build a fence near a concrete marker depicting the North Korean and Chinese national flags with the words "China North Korea Border" at a crossing in the Chinese border town of Tumen in eastern China's Jilin province on Dec. 8, 20...
North Korean authorities have recently been signaling a change in the tenor of their quarantine policies, leading to speculation that they may open the China-North Korea border. Barring any major unseen variables, however, North Korean authorities are likely to keep the border closed through 20...
Economically, 90 percent of North Korea’s trade is with China, which means this border is the lifeline of the North Korean regime, a regime that China does not want to fall. TheChinese governmentfears that the sudden collapse of North Korea could spur a mass migration of people...
“Before, we’d have maybe dozens of North Korean customers every day. Now you don’t even get 10.” China’s continuing strict coronavirus controls have battered local economies across the country. But Shenyang has endured a double blow. Just 150 miles from the North Korean border, it is...
Informal traders can thus maintain trade in many circumstances, including across North Korean personnel instability and policy reversals, Chinese sanctions enforcement, and delays and smuggling crackdowns on both sides of the border. 展开 DOI: 10.1017/jea.2018.4 年份: 2018 ...
North Korean authorities have not called their intensified quarantine protocols a “lockdown,” but many believe the new protocols are the same as a lockdown and are expressing their displeasure accordingly, he said. Faced with this growing discontent, the authorities in some regions shortened t...
North Korean soldiers seen walking near Namyang, North Hamgyong Province. / Image: Daily NK No longer able to deal with his gradually worsening household finances, the man had recently travelled to China to meet a relative, avoiding detection by the Ministry of State Security and border patrol....
' ' . . China is assumed to be the major escape route used by the North Korean defectors in which the majority still resides. The Chinese government considers the North Korean defectors as illegal immigrants, and refuses to acknowledge the defectors as refugees under the international law, ...