English citations of Amnok

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  • 1888 April 7, “'The Hermit Land.'”, in Chambers's Journal (Fifth Series)‎[1], volume V, number 223, →OCLC, page 209:
    The Amnok, called also the Yalu, is a fine river which divides Corea from Manchuria.
  • 1888, W. R. Carles, Life in Corea[2], Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, →OL, pages 228–229:
    A very respectable employé assured me that as many as 1000 families had in the past ten years emigrated to the Chinese side of the Amnok, which is about five miles from the town, but the neighbourhood bore a flourishing appearance, and the population was said to be still increasing.
  • 1910, George Heber Jones, The Korea Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church[3], New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, →OCLC, page 9:
    The Amnok or Yalu forms the boundary between Korea and China for 175 miles.
  • 1943 November, “The McCune-Reischauer System of Transcription”, in Place Name Index for Korea (Chosen)[4], Washington, D.C.: Army Map Service, →OCLC, page iv:
    The hyphen is used sparingly, but is applied in geographic terms when the specific name is to be separated from the generic term, i.e., Amnok-kang (Amnok River) and Paektu-san (Paektu Mountain).
  • [1950 July 24, “Background for War”, in Time[5], volume LVI, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
    Ever White. Southwest from Paektu along the Manchurian border flows the Yalu River, blue-green with melted snow and ice from its mountain source, and known to Koreans as the Am Nok (Green Duck). Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia.]
  • 1970, Sohn Pow-key, Kim Chol-choon, Hong Yi-sup, The History of Korea[6], →OCLC, →OL, pages 252–253:
    On December 27, 1910 Governor-General Terauchi was to attend a ceremony dedicating the railway bridge over the Amnok River.
  • [1977 [1975 April], Hayashi Kaname, “Tracing Back to the Roots of Korean Revolution”, in Kim Il Sung: Great Leader of People[7], Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 52:
    Hyesan is the capital of Ryanggang Province and a northern border city on the Amnok-gang River.]
  • 1980 [1937 March 29], Kim Il-sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works[8], volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 126:
    In this large-scale operation of advance into the homeland we plan to dispatch the KPRA in three directions: The main unit will cross the Amnok River and push towards Hyesan, a strongpoint of frontier guards of the Japanese imperialists; another unit is to skirt Mt. Paektu and push on, by way of Antu and Helong, to the northern border area adjoining the Tuman River; and the third unit is to advance as far as the Linjiang and Changbai areas on the shore of the Amnok River.
  • 1995, K. Connie Kang, Home Was the Land of Morning Calm[9], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 111:
    Marks of blood on every ridge of the Jangbaek [Mountain],
    Marks of blood on every reach of Amnok [River].
    Still now over the blooming free Korea
    Those sacred marks shed brilliant rays
    O dear is the name, our beloved General!
    O glorious is the name, General Kim Il-Sung!
  • 2008, Robert Willoughby, North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides)‎[10], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
    Another 40km south of Samjiyon is the Amnok riverbank city of Hyesan, opposite China, worth visiting for another China/DPRK comparison that’s also a favourite for visitors to Dandong (see page 205).
  • 2008, James Church, Bamboo and Blood[11], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
    My grandfather continued to sand a piece of wood, a piece for a small writing desk that had been commissioned by an official in Pyongyang, an old friend from the days of the anti-Japanese war when they were guerrillas in the mountains near the Amnok River.
  • 2010 August 22, “Over 5,000 evacuated as floods hit northwest N.Korea”, in Reuters[12], archived from the original on 30 April 2022:
    North Korea's official KCNA news agency said on Sunday many parts of northwestern Shinuiju city had been submerged after the Amnok river overflowed due to high water levels in rivers running between North Korea and China.
  • 2014 July 25, Li Jiabao, Dong Fangyu, “New DPRK economic zones to benefit investors”, in China Daily[13], archived from the original on 02 July 2018, Asia-Pacific‎[14]:
    Pyongyang, the capital, will host the Unjong cutting-edge technological development zone, while export, industrial, agricultural, tourism and green model zones will be set up in other areas, the agency said.
    The move follows the announcement in November that the country will designate 13 special economic zones in areas including the Amnok River.
    Jin Qiangyi, a Korean studies professor at Yanbian University in Jilin province, said that the new zones are "obviously an attempt to boost the economy".
  • 2015 May 3, Tong-Hyung Kim, “N. Korea arrests U.S. students for illegal entry”, in USA Today[15], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2015:
    North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Joo was arrested on April 22 after trying to illegally enter North Korea by crossing the Amnok River from the Chinese border town of Dandong.
  • 2015 September 30, 0:00 from the start, in Bridge across North Korea′s Amnok River closed off due to collapse 북한 압록강 대교 노[16], Arirang News, archived from the original on August 9, 2021:
    A bridge connecting North Korea′s western city of Shinuiju and the Chinese city Dangdong has been closed off due to a partial collapse.
    According to Korean broadcaster YTN, the northern end of the Amnok River, or the New Yalu River Bridge, caved in by four to seven meters on Monday at around 8:30 AM, while a Chinese media outlet also reported that the bridge partially sunk with a single vehicle falling in.
  • 2016 July 15, “North Korea detains person it alleges is South Korean spy”, in Associated Press[17], archived from the original on 30 April 2022[18]:
    Ko, 53, said he was born in North Korea but fled the country in early 2013 to resettle in the South. He said he was later recruited by South Korea’s spy service for a mission to abduct children from the North. He said he was arrested May 27 on an island in the Amnok River which runs along the border between North Korea and China.
  • 2018 April 2, Tim Franco, “Telling the Stories of Defectors From North Korea”, in New York Times[19], archived from the original on 03 April 2018[20]:
    From a very young age, Han Song-i dreamed of becoming a star. Growing up in the northeast part of North Korea, she could observe China from the other side of the Amnok River. In those regions, North Koreans have greater access to imported goods and Chinese TV channels.
  • 2018 May 11, “[Photos] Sections of the Amnok River near Dandong, China, blocked with barbed wire fence”, in Daily NK[21], archived from the original on 30 April 2022:
    It has been reported that barbed wire fences have been installed in areas of the Amnok (Yalu) River area near Dandong, Liaoning Province.[...]
    “I can confirm that since the end of last month there has been a barbed wire fence along the upper region of the Amnok River. Accordingly, several cruise lines in that area have been forced to suspend business operations,”a source in China close to North Korean affairs stated in a conversation with Daily NK on the May 9.
  • 2019 September 19, “The cataclysm that created a Korean icon”, in France 24[22], archived from the original on 30 April 2022[23]:
    It left behind a spectacular caldera, with steep walls plunging down from the rim to the shores of Chonji crater lake -- Heaven Lake in English -- with the China frontier running through its placid blue waters.
    Made up of rainwater and snowmelt, it is the source of the two rivers that form the border, the Tumen running to the northeast and the Amnok to the southwest, known as the Yalu in China, where the mountain is called Changbaishan.
  • 2020 August 11, “Anti-epidemic Activities Further Intensified in DPRK”, in Korean Central News Agency[24], archived from the original on 16 July 2022:
    Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Hygienic and anti-epidemic centers across the country are making a strict analysis of water quality in rivers and streams as required by the anti-epidemic regulations in the current rainy season.
    The centers in border areas of North Phyongan Province are intensifying the examination of water in Amnok River, its tributary streams, lakes and heads of water.
  • 2021 July 15, Jieun Kim, Roseanne Gerin, “Chinese Traders in Dire Straits Over Frozen Border Trade With North Korea”, in Jinha Shin, transl., Radio Free Asia[25], archived from the original on 15 July 2021:
    A major bridge crossing the Yalu River, called the Amnok River in North Korea, connects the Chinese city of Dandong with North Korea’s northwestern city of Sinuiju.
  • 2021 November 22, Soo-hyang Choi, “N. Korea yet to reopen land border with China: unification ministry”, in Yonhap News Agency[26], archived from the original on 21 March 2021:
    Earlier this month, local media broadcast footage of a train crossing the bridge over the Amnok River connecting Sinuiju in North Korea to the Chinese port city of Dandong.
  • 2022 March 26, “[Visual History of Korea] Jjajangmyeon, Korean Chinese dish invented in Incheon by Chinese migrant workers”, in The Korea Herald[27], archived from the original on 26 March 2022:
    According to Yi Jung-hee, a professor at Incheon National University, Qing dynasty workers were large-framed, cheap wage workers who were hired by Japanese to build the Supung dam, a 900-meter long dam along the Amnok River (Yalu River) and Changjinho dam, better known as the Chosin Reservoir, where US troops took severe losses against advancing Chinese Communist Forces before retreating during the Korean War.

Spanish citations of Amnok

  • 2015 October 5, “Deportan de RPDC a estudiante de Universidad de Nueva York detenido, según KCNA”, in Xinhua News Agency[28], archived from the original on 10 October 2015:
    Joo fue interceptado el pasado 22 de abril cuando trataba de entrar en la RPDC cruzando el río Amnok desde Dandong, ciudad china fronteriza con la RPDC, y ha permanecido detenido desde entonces.
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