The Amnok River (in Korean, Amnokkgang), known in Chinese as the Yalu River, is the longest river in Korea and is one of two rivers that form the border between North Korea and China. (The name Yalu is supposedly derived from the green color of the...

The Yalu River (Chinese) or the Amnok River (Korean), is a river on the border between China and North Korea. The Chinese name comes from a Manchu word meaning "the boundary between two fields". The Korean name is the Korean pronunciation of the same...

DANDONG, China - The boatman laughed at my wallet and gunned his engine. "You'll need 10,000 yuan [$1,200]. Only then are you allowed onto the boat." A spin in his speedboat, dodging ice floes in midriver, costs just 15 yuan ($1.80). But only...

What would possess a 26-year-old American missionary to swim across a heavily patrolled river from China into North Korea, one of the world's most zealously isolated countries? And what will Pyongyang demand of the United States for his return? The arrest of Evan...

North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China in an apparent move to prevent people from fleeing the impoverished communist country, a news report said SundayThe North has put posts on a six-mile stretch along a narrow tributary of...

Some of Bill Richardson's foreign policy efforts:December 1984: Led a delegation to nine Latin American countries shortly after being elected chairman of the congressional Hispanic Caucus.Late 1988: Traveled to Angola to meet with rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who was fighting against the Marxist government.August 1993:...