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	Tumen River Area Development Program and Transboundary Water Pollution
		The Tumen River Delta, spanning over 88,000 hectares of wetlands in China, North Korea, and Russia, are critical to coastal zone management, and a crucial point for migrating birds along the East Asian/Australasian flyway.
		Attempts to gain navigation rights in the 12 km of the Tumen River from the Chinese border through the shared waters of North Korea and Russia have been consistently denied-an effort which is also opposed by the UNDP as the dredging of the lower Tumen for shipping would prove environmentally disastrous.
		Recognizing that the Tumen River area is a possible political flashpoint, since 1995 the UNDP has been working to develop a multilateral environmental framework within the TRADP.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/papers/enviro/hunter_tumen.html (2666 words)

	Tumen River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tumen River, also known as the Duman River (in Korean), is a river in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its lower stretches.
		The name of the river comes from the Jurchen tumen, which means "ten thousand."
		The river is 521 km long, rising in the Changbai/Jangbaek Mountains and flowing into the Sea of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tumen_River (107 words)

	KOREA PAST & PRESENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is separated from Manchuria by the Yalu River, Mt. Paektu and the Tumen River.
		As the eastern and the northern parts of the country are mountainous while the western and the southern parts abound in narrow plains, the majority of large rivers are in the south and west.
		Rivers exceeding 400kms in length are the Yalu and the Tumen which form the borders between Korea and Manchuria.
	yichoe.netian.com /HHH/geo.htm (1147 words)

	Tumen River Project
		What has propelled the Tumen River dream along for the past two years, besides the sheer determination of its promoters, are the rapid changes in the political climate of the post-Cold War era.
		The Tumen area delta is comprised of fragile wetlands that serve as critical habitat for birds and wildlife.
		According to an article in The Daily Yomiuri, "Pyongyang believes the Tumen River project is its trump card to pull itself out of isolation from the international community and to overcome its chronic economic crises brought about by the collapse of the socialist rule in the Soviet Union and East Europe".
	gurukul.ucc.american.edu /TED/TUMEN.htm (3430 words)

	Tumen River Area Development Programme: The Tumen Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tumen Region has great potential as a major entrepot for international trade because of the strategic location of the Tumen transport corridor, the strong complementarities of the Tumen River Area, vast natural and human resources, and the area's accessibility to the resources and markets of Northeast Asia.
		For the Tumen Region, which partly consists of small and remote areas of large countries, economic cooperation is an effective way to avoid marginalisation.
		The Tumen Programme is the only initiative that brings the member countries together on a sub-regional basis, and its existing institutional structure and multilateral agreements should be utilised to maximum effect to help Northeast Asia achieve peace and prosperity.
	www.tumenprogramme.org /tumen/programme (895 words)

	China today―Foreigners Exchanges
		Rising southeast of the Changbai Mountains, the Shiyi River is the source of the Tumen River, the longest in Yanbian.
		Lying on the lower reaches of the Tumen River, with the DPRK on its opposite bank, Tumen is a fine border port city with an attractive landscape and rich mineral resources.
		Tumen port was designated a first-category port upon the founding of the people's republic.
	www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/200112/home.htm (1837 words)

	Project to Enhance Tumen River Water Monitoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tumen River forms part of the border between China and North Korea and between Russia and North Korea.
		The Tumen River supplies the region’s growing human population with water for direct human consumption, agricultural irrigation, and industrial development.
		Within the existing UN DP program, the CMC is proposing to implement a one- to two-year project in the Tumen River watershed to enhance the water quality monitoring capabilities in a manner compatible with the UN DP capacity building goals.
	www.cmc.sandia.gov /links/cmc-papers/tumen-river-water/tumen-river-water.htm (472 words)

	TumenNET \| Project \| SURVEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The strategy to implement the water survey in the Tumen River basin has been prepared in April 2001 and was adopted by the Inaugural TumenNET Council Meeting in May 2001.
		In the Russian National Report, high concentrations of chlorinated pesticides and petroleum hydrocarbons in the Tumen river estuary are mentioned as well as different disorders in fish and invertebrates.
		Tumen river, upstream and downstream of Hunchun river mouth.
	www.tumennet.org /project/proj_survey.htm (1250 words)

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		The Tumen River Economic Development Area (TREDA) and its Northeast Asian environs (hereinafter referred to as “the Region” includes parts of the People’s Republic of China, Russian Federation, Mongolia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Republic of Korea (ROK)) are experiencing a rapid economic growth.
		Coastal areas to the south of the river belong to DPRK and coastal areas to the north of the river belong to Russia.
		This and the unique transboundary biodiversity that is tied to the Tumen River Basin demonstrate the strong ties to the GEF biodiversity focal area, and in particular the coastal, marine and freshwater ecosystem operational programme No. 2.
	www.gefweb.org /wprogram/mar98/undp/tumen/tumenbrf.doc (10885 words)

	Tumen River Summary
		The Tumen River (Tumangang) is the second-longest river on the Korean Peninsula.
		The Tumen River became the permanent northern-frontier border of Korea when six garrison forts were established there during the reigns of the Choson monarchs T'aejo (1392–1398) and Sejong (1418–1450).
		The Tumen River, also known as the Duman River (in Korean), is a river in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its lower stretches.
	www.bookrags.com /Tumen_River (399 words)

	Tumen River - As A Border Between China And The Democratic People's Republic Of Korea (DPRK).
		The Tumen river is located in Northeast Asia and acts as a border between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in its upper reaches, and between DPRK and the Russian Federation near the mouth.
		The Tumen river originates in the Changbai Mountain Range which is the sacred mountain of Korean culture and flows into Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan).
		The length of Tumen river mainstream extends 546 km, with average annual runoff of 6.76 billion cubic meters.
	chinatravelz.com /china/Jilin/Jilin/tumenjiang-river/index.asp (311 words)

	FULL PROPOSAL AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		River runoff exerts distinct impact on biogeochemical factors in the coastal zone, which in turn determine the capacity of ecosystems.
		The main objectives of the Project are evaluation of the impact of the Amur and Tumen rivers on coastal areas, and comparing the impact with those of other major rivers of the region (Russia, Korea and China).
		Data with regards to hydrological, biological and chemical research, the analysis of bottom and water pollution by heavy metals, oil carbohydrates, detergents, pesticides and the composition of pollutants (which are discharged from the Tumen River), the dynamics of their distribution and their effects on freshwater and marine ecosystems are available.
	www.imb.dvo.ru /misc/apn/e_002.htm (1763 words)

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		From point A, located in the middle of the Tumen (Tumannaya) River, the line of the border proceeds along the middle of the river in a southeasterly direction approximately 1.1km from the aforementioned starting point A, turns southward, and reaches point B along the main channel of the river.
		Point B is situated in the middle of the main channel of the river, approximately 1.4 km southeast of the western tip of the railway bridge and approximately 1.5m south of the eastern tip of this same bridge.
		The final point F of the line of the border on the river is located in the center of a line drawn in the Tumen (Tumannaya) River estuary from the southernmost point of the Soviet coast to the northernmost point of the Korean coast of the Sea of Japan (East Korean Sea).
	www.dtic.mil /whs/directives/corres/20051m_062305/Korea_North.doc (708 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 308, COREA: Library of Economics and Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Properly speaking, it is an island, since the Tumen and Yalu rivers are said to flow from one source.
		The former river divides it from Russia, and the latter from China, while the mainland of Japan is but 150 miles distant from her southern shore.
		Vigilantly guarding her coasts, picketing her rivers, and palisading her mountains, she has forbidden all foreigners to touch her shores; the only exception reluctantly allowed, being that of occasional envoys from Peking.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy308.html (2865 words)

	KOREA - LoveToKnow Article on KOREA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It extends from 34 18' to 43 N., and from 124 36' to 130 47' E. Its northern boundary is marked by the Tumen and Yalu-vers; the eastern boundary by the Sea of Japan^_-tfee"southern boundary by Korea Strait; and the western'boundary by the Yalu and the Yellow Sea.
		The rivers are shallow and rocky, and are usually only navigable for a few miles from the sea.
		Among the exceptions are the Yalu (Amnok), Tumen, Tai-dong, Naktong, Mok-po, and Han.
	www.1911ency.org /K/KO/KOREA.htm (6161 words)

	China Province - Region, Regional
		The village is merely 15 kilometers from the Tumen River.
		Bording Russia and the D.P.R.K., on the lower reaches of the Tumen River, the city of Hunchun faces the river and the sea and backs on mountains.
		On the right side of the river are several dozen spring mouths, including seven large ones, and another five on the left side.
	www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/provinces/jilin/jli_yabu.shtml (945 words)

	National Institute of Environmental Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The pilgrimage's main focus was to monitor the Tumen river environmental situations, and raise environmental awareness both in the local region, and throughout South Korea.
		Villagers along the Tumen River are using its water for agricultural purposes.
		During the pilgrimage it was hard to find communities along the river that have been able to drink the river water, especially during the period of low water flow.
	www.nier.go.kr:8282 /nierdepart/e_tumennet/documents.html (817 words)

	Boao Forum For Asia
		The Tumen region, which is located in the remote corner of Asia, where China, the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today border, was until recently virtually a white spot in the world map, closed to even own citizens in some areas not to mention outsiders.
		Moreover when the Tumen Programme was initiated by the governments of five states of China, Russia, ROK, DPRK and Mongolia in 1991, the region was regarded as one of the turbulent corners of the world, with its war time memory and unfriendly, hostile relations between the states.
		In short the UNDP supported Tumen Programme has brought about initially envisaged changes to this once distant corner of the world, contributed to peace and stability of the region, helped to the countries and provinces to peacefully co-exist and cooperate for wellbeing of their people.
	www.boaoforum.org /boao/2004nh/cd/t20040511_821181.htm (1050 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In particular, it is connected with River Sector by the problem of natural processes occurring in Tumen River mouth and pollution transboundary transport.
		It is the coastal area adjacent to Tumen River mouth where the focus of the Project is situated.
		We consider that the eastern coastal areas and offshores of Korean Peninsula including the Tumen River are affected by one natural and oceanographic influences.
	www.nier.go.kr:8282 /nierdepart/e_tumennet/imglist/07050111.doc (1010 words)

	washingtonpost.com: N. Koreans Fleeing Hard Lives Discover New Misery in China
		TUMEN, China -- After five days of hiking in the biting cold, Lee Shanyu made her escape from the other bank of the Tumen River, where the tortured land of North Korea ends in a row of barren brown hills crusted with frost.
		The promise of a bribe to North Korean border guards got her to the river's edge, she recalled, and a furtive midnight trot across the frozen water got her to this side of the border, where she said the police all seemed to be indoors trying to stay warm.
		But one of the soldiers on duty at the final guard post was a relative of the elderly neighbor, she recalled, and let them by on pity and a promise: They would return one day and give him 100 Chinese yuan, or about $12.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A12158-2005Mar6?language=printer (1344 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Tumen river, a silver thread meandering over shingle not 50m wide, marks the boundary between two worlds.
		The small town of Tumen, an impoverished backwater by Chinese standards, is a bustling cornucopia for North Koreans.
		The result of this gathering gloom is that the numbers of Koreans trying to flee their country has grown, eliciting a reciprocal response from the border patrols up and down the Tumen river.
	www.cuttingedge.org /news_updates/na826.htm (1175 words)

	International Affairs-Tuman River Protection
		The Tumen River Watershed is a strategic and globally-significant international waters system, but it has been ecologically in crisis for more than twenty years, with water pollution and sedimentation being the principal causes of the present damage to the environment in the area.
		The Tumen River, being the most southern of the salmon spawning rivers along the Northeast Asian coastline, also lost this capacity as salmon were no longer capable of surviving in the river.
		The downstream and coastal effects of pollution and siltation in the Tumen River are of even greater concern to environmentalists and local politicians, for highly sensitive globally-important eco-systems at the estuary of the river are threatened by this pollution.
	english.kfem.or.kr /international/tumen.htm (7304 words)

	AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tumen River forms the border with China and further downstream with the Russian Federation;
		As the Yalu and Tumen rivers form the border with China, half of the average discharge of these rivers (10.135 km³/year) is, by convention, considered as external resources of DPR Korea.
		In 1989, a project was initiated to build a 400-km-long canal by diverting the flow of the Taedong River along the west coast.
	www.fao.org /ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/korea_d_p_rp (1458 words)

	Map of China Province - Region, Regional
		Jilin, meaning in Man language "along the river", is situated in the central part of the Northeast China.
		The province of Jilin is a borderland lying in the juncture of three countries, with its east part joined with Russia and its southeast with Korean Peninsula by the Tumen River and the Yalu River respectively.
		It shares border with North Korea and Russia over 1,400 kms and the shortest way to the Sea of Japan from the outlet of the Tumen River is only 15 kms.
	www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/provinces/jilin.shtml (438 words)

	:: UNESCO & KOREA :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The river encompasses Hamgyeongbuk-do province in North Korea, Primosky in Russia, and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin province, China.
		In the Final Workshop held in Beijing on January 13 and 14 the project stakeholders reviewed a draft on the establishment of a biosphere reserve surrounding the Tumen River area and discussed actions to be taken in future.
		Stressing the urgent need to set up a cooperative system for preserving and protecting nature in the Lower Tumen River, the KNCU reported on the process, the tasks and results of the feasibility study, and exchanged views on follow-up activities and possible allied activities with related domestic organizations.
	www.unesco.or.kr /unescokorea/past_no3/focus_3.html (396 words)

	UNDP-GEF Project Writeups
		The 546-km Tumen River forms the border between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in its upper reaches, and between DPRK and the Russian Federation near its mouth in the Sea of Japan.
		The strategic location of the Tumen River Area and its potential as a transport corridor, the area's vast natural and human resources, and its accessibility to the resources and markets of Northeast Asia have brought rapid business expansion and development to the area.
		The Tumen River Area Development Programme is particularly important as the only existing initiative that brought the countries together on a sub-regional basis and the programme is therefore a significant catalyst for peace and prosperity in North-east Asia.
	www.undp.org /gef/05/portfolio/writeups/iw/tunennet.html (2088 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » "Surviving day by day": North Koreans in China
		The Tumen River marks the northernmost part of the border between North Korea and China.
		While the river is no wider than 100 yards and shallow enough to walk across in certain spots in summer, it marks an Amazonian divide in living standards and economic freedom.
		The stunning contrast between his life of fear and deprivation in North Korea and the relative wealth he found on the other bank of the Tumen River was shattering.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/9e69b4c1938cbcc485256d6d006f500b (1087 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Free-trade zone touted for Tumen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The decision to get more involved in the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP) opens the door for the five member countries to devise and decide the future of the Tumen programme, said UNDP senior official Khalid Malik.
		"The Development Programme of the Tumen River Area is at the core of the regional co-operation in Northeast Asia and an important component in revitalizing the old industry base in Northeast China," Wei added.
		While full development of the Tumen River area is still far from what the UNDP expected, Wei called on all members to have confidence and be patient.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200407/09/eng20040709_149034.html (468 words)

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