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...Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border On Scene: It's business as usual on the Chinese border town of Dandong, which continues to trade briskly with 'those stupid bastards' across the Yalu
...Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border On Scene: It's business as usual on the Chinese border town of Dandong, which continues to trade briskly with 'those stupid bastards' across the Yalu
...Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border On Scene: It's business as usual on the Chinese border town of Dandong, which continues to trade briskly with 'those stupid bastards' across the Yalu
...most visible obstacles to that strategy is the Friendship Bridge across the Yalu River in northeastern China. The span connects the city of Dandong with North Korea, and every day pedicab drivers and minivans haul their goods across the Yalu, bringing scissors and shampoo, fruit and vegetables, and even DVD players and color TVs to market in Kim's socialist paradise. Train cars also trundle over, carrying oil destined for use in North Korea's million-member military. For Kim, the economic link to the outside world that the bridge symbolizes is vital. Beijing knows it?and so does Washington...
...Beijing?he prefers to lumber along in a luxurious private train. Last Wednesday, Kim wound up a clandestine 2 1/2-day visit with China's leaders in Beijing?most likely to discuss international concerns over his nuclear-weapons program?and boarded his train for Pyongyang. It proceeded east to Dandong, crossed the North Korean border and passed through the city of Ryongchon. Some nine hours later, something sparked a cataclysmic explosion at the Ryongchon station, reportedly killing 154 people, including 76 school children, and injuring more than 1,000. South Korea's official Yonhap news agency quickly asserted that a state...