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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Where Civilizations Once Clashed -- Jul. 22, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | From Beijing it means an overnight train to the 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. |
 | | Guesthouses along the Yalu are routinely booked up, and Korean restaurants are rowdy late into the night, the soju (a traditional Korean liquor) flowing like the Yalu. |
 | | Setting off over the Yalu bridge behind my armed tour guide, I felt briefly like the hero from a John le Carré thriller, soon to be swapped for a rival spy. |
| time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020722-320802,00.html (955 words) |
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