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Dandong

Type: City

Name: Dandong

Country: China

Latitude: 40.130001

Longitude: 124.400002

population: 631,973

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Chinese traders backing off North Korea as sanctions bite

, marking the formal start of China and North Korea co-developing and co-managing the special economic zone.Photo: ICWang Chao (pseudonym), a finance official from Dandong's Foreign Trade Administrative Department, has been facing a dilemma of late. He ... [Published Global Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Dandong, China

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

North Korean teens describe life as scavengers

Before they were detained in Laos and sent home, a group of young North Korean defectors smiled and teased each other as they told an activist how some of them were beaten with sticks for trying to steal noodles in their homeland.They talked about a South ... [Published stuff.co.nz - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Defector, North Korea, South Korea

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

North Korea Cracks Down on Smuggled Goods From South

Goods bound for North Korea at a customs checkpoint near the border in Dandong, China, April 11, 2013.AFPNorth Korea has stepped up restrictions on goods smuggled in from South Korea amid tensions between the two neighbors, with traders complaining that ... [Published Radio Free Asia - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: South Korea, North Korea, Commodities

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

NorthSouth Korea talks collapse

A North Korean soldier stands on the river bank in Sinuiju, North Korea, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. A much-anticipated meeting between North Korea and South Korea, which had been set for yesterday, collapsed before it even began. Ph ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Sinuiju, Dandong

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Koreas ‘Trustpolitik’ Process Hits Another Snag

APA North Korean soldier stood on the river bank in Sinuiju, North Korea, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. A much-anticipated meeting between North Korea and South Korea, which had been set for Wednesday, collapsed before it even began.North ... [Published WSJ.com: Korea Real Time - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Sinuiju, Dandong

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 3 reports

Activist: Smiling NKorean defectors informed of misery

SEOUL, South Korea - Before they were detained in Laos and sent home, a group of young North Korean defectors smiled and teased each other as they informed an activist how some of them were beaten with sticks for trying to steal noodles in their home ... [Published The Oregon Herald - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Defector, North Korea, South Korea

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 2 reports

Chinese Making Major Purchase of U.S. Soybeans

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced that Perdue AgriBusiness Incorporated, which owns and operates a major deep-water export terminal for grains and oilseeds in Chesapeake, has reached a new agreement with China's Dandong Port Group Company and ... [Published Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Soybean, Dandong, Bob McDonnell

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

Chinese traders resort to desperate measures to get money owed to them

A Chinese woman in Korean-style dress poses in front of the bridge in Dandong. Photo: Liang Chen/GT Li Meng (pseudonym) will no longer go to North Korea."I have visited almost every corner of North Korea where foreigners are allowed to go, and I really ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Dandong, North Korea, Li Meng

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

China Firm Contracts For Major Purchase of 2013 Soybeans From Perdue AgriBusiness

The agreement was reached in Dandong, a major port city in the Liaoning Province in northeastern China, last month during the governor's trade and marketing mission to Asia.Governor McDonnell served as the official signing witness to the accord between ... [Published Grainnet.com - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Dandong, Soybean, China, Vessel, Virginia Department of Agriculture

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 3 reports

Border town opens to tourists

(CNN) -- "Warmly welcome Simon Cockerell David."The colorful, electric sign was something of an unusual and unexpected greeting for Briton Simon Cockerell, 35, who this week embarked on a landmark visit to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town.Separated ... [Published CNN - May 28 2013]

Entities: Sinuiju, North Korea, Dandong, China, Pyongyang

First reported May 26 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 2 reports

Exploitation of Chinese fishermen by North Korea

Liao Pu Yu No. 25222, also known as the Liaoning Generic Fishing, was freed by Pyongyang, on May 21, after seizure by an armed North Korean vessel on May 5 in the Yellow Sea. But it seems not to be the only seizure, reported the Jinghua Times on Mond ... [Published China.org.cn - May 27 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Dandong, Seizures, Vessel, Yu Xuejun

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

North Korea border town opens to tourists

Separated by a river from China's Dandong City, Sinuiju has long been a popular North Korean destination for Chinese tourists but was pretty much off-limits to Western visitors until now. ... [Published WDSU New Orleans - May 21 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Sinuiju, Dandong

Quotes

"Sino-North Korea relations remain vital. As long as the North starts to send out positive signals, economic relations will improve" Xu said

Chinese traders backing off North Korea as sanctions bite [Published Global Times - Jun 17 2013]

"At first I felt a little bit guilty, scared and nervous, but I also thought I would die if I didn't do those things" he said in an interview with The Associated Press this week

North Korean teens describe life as scavengers [Published stuff.co.nz - Jun 16 2013]

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Chinese traders backing off North Korea as sanc... [Published Global Times - Jun 17 2013]
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Koreas ‘Trustpolitik’ Process Hits Another Snag [Published WSJ.com: Korea Real Time - Jun 13 2013]
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Activist: Smiling NKorean defectors informed of... [Published The Oregon Herald - Jun 05 2013]
North Korean defectors joked about dark past be... [Published Metronews - Jun 05 2013]
Activist: Smiling NKorean Defectors Told of Misery [Published ABC News - Jun 05 2013]
China's Dandong agrees to big U.S. soybean purc... [Published Sharenet - Jun 04 2013]
NKorean Economy Surrenders To Foreign Currency ... [Published Financial Daily - Jun 04 2013]
North money laundering done in Guangdong [Published Korea Joongang Daily - Jun 04 2013]
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North Korean gov't surrenders to foreign curren... [Published China Post - Jun 04 2013]
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Blogs

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Koreas ‘Trustpolitik’ Process Hits Another Snag [Published WSJ.com: Korea Real Time - Jun 13 2013] APA North Korean soldier stood on the river bank in Sinuiju, North Korea, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. A much-anticipated meeting between North Korea and South Korea, which had been set for Wednesday, collapsed before it even began.North ...
North Koreans Are Using Foreign Currencies More... [Published Clusterstock - Jun 03 2013] * North Koreans crave U.S. dollars and yuan, shun own currency * No one wants to get paid in North Korean won - expert * Won currency has lost 99 percent of its value since 2009 on black market * Illustrates regime's loss of control over the economy ...
North Korea releases detained Chinese sailors: ... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - May 21 2013] BEIJING: North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat Tuesday, Beijing said, demanding an explanation after the kidnapping by armed attackers heightened strains between the neighbours. “The DPRK side released the fishing boat and all the ...
North Korea Seizes Chinese Fishing Boat: China ... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - May 20 2013] BEIJING — China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. Boat owner ...
WRAPUP 5-North Korea asks embassies to consider... [Published AdBanks.net - Apr 06 2013] Fri Apr 5, 2013 10:25pm EDT * Reports say missiles moved to North Korea’s east coast * Jitters hit South Korean markets * Attack on United States would be “suicidal” * U.N. says alarmed, but aid staff still working By Guy Faulconbridge ...

Audio/Video

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Witness: Tensions cloud a window into North Korea [Published Reuters Video: Business - Apr 17 2013]