Word: yalu
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...final stop was the town of Sinuiju, across the Yalu River from China. Officials took us on a tour of the local hospital, a disturbing den of dank hallways and archaic equipment, and a department store offering a sparse selection of packaged food and clothing that looked like 1950s leftovers. After dark, students gathered at the foot of Sinuiju's giant statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founding father, to finish their homework. With little electricity in the town, the spotlights pointed at the statue were one of the few sources of light. The North Koreans escorting...
...That doesn't mean we should expect Asian nations to immediately start shooting wars over access to the Mekong or the Yalu - though all bets are off if climate change leads to the loss of the Himalayan glaciers whose seasonal melt provides water for billions in Asia. In fact, the history of cross-border water disputes has been surprisingly conciliatory so far. India and Pakistan have fought three wars and currently point nuclear weapons at each other, yet the Indus Waters Treaty - which divvies up the two countries' trans-boundary waterways, overseen by a joint commission - has survived for decades...
...country's extreme southeast corner. But General Douglas MacArthur's bold amphibious counterattack at Inchon, behind the enemy lines, rolled back the North Koreans and resulted in the capture of their capital, Pyongyang. Just as the war appeared to be winding down, Chinese armies poured across the Yalu River, once again reversing the tide. They too were pushed back, but MacArthur was forbidden to invade Mainland China. President Truman, reluctant to widen the conflict, ceremoniously dismissed the angry, defiant general, and two more years dragged by before an inconclusive truce was signed. The net result: both sides were more...
...D.P.R.K. in the 1990s started a free-trade zone in Rajin-Sonbong, a remote area near the country's northeastern frontier. The experiment failed: the zone didn't attract much beyond a few hotels and a casino catering to Chinese tourists. Another special economic zone in Sinuiju, across the Yalu River from the Chinese city of Dandong, faltered in 2002 after the Chinese-Dutch orchid entrepreneur handpicked by Kim to run the place was arrested by China for fraud...
...this point there seems to be no lack of radicals from the Islamic world to take the place of al-Qaeda fighters who are killed in Iraq. If North Korea ever attacks the South, there would not be a million Chinese troops (or anyone else) streaming across the Yalu river in support, as there were during the Korean war. As a senior U.S. commander in Seoul put it me when I was there last month, the next war, if it ever came, "would be one and done...