Word: yalu
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...Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous peaks of the Changbai range. Simply reaching Ji'an's narrow valley sanctuary along the Yalu River in one piece feels like a miracle...
...Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people picked up from the Commie Reds north of the Yalu) was to have this message, "RATS", flash subliminally in the mind of the late Lawrence Harvey and persuade him to vote Republican in November. Not only Lawrence Harvey, but millions of previously normal Americans: Envision them on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November walking stiff-legged and blank...
...first memories of China go back almost 50 years. Sitting in front of our 10-in. Philco television, over milk and peanut-butter sandwiches, my closest third-grade friends and I watched, with fascination and terror, the grainy news footage of Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River into Korea. It was 1950, the year after Mao Zedong and the communists had taken control of China, exiling General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party to Taiwan. And now they were fighting...
...years ago, his children grown, Cho began studying how to escape. He befriended a Chinese smuggler and on the night of Oct. 3 stole to the banks of the Yalu River, where he met the smuggler and his well-hidden boat. A driving rain cloaked their escape from the numerous watchtowers and patrols, and in 10 silent minutes they rowed across to China. There he made his way to the port city of Dalian, where he found another Chinese smuggler, who transported him to South Korean authorities...
...been Communist Party members in good standing who were fed up with the decline of living standards and the complete isolation of North Korea. Chung Kee Hea, 52, said he held a senior party job but still could barely feed his family. Last December he walked across the frozen Yalu, planning to get a job in China and then bribe guards to let his five children and wife join him. When he realized it was difficult to make a living on the run in China, he moved on to South Korea. The danger, Chung readily admits, is that his family...