Tumen

[ ty-��ղ� ]

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noun

a river in East Asia, flowing northeast along the China–North Korea border and then southeast along the border between China and Russia to the Sea of Japan. About 325 miles (525 km) long.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tumen¹

From Mongolian or Manchu ��ü�� “ten thousand, myriad,” referring to the number of the river's sources

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Close by is the Tumen river that gently cuts through all three countries.

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In the early 1960s it was the Chinese who fled famine across the shallow Tumen river.

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Soon, North Korean refugees began wading through an often freezing Tumen river at the risk of being shot dead to escape hunger, poverty and repression.

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Across the Tumen river in Fangchuan, a North Korean soldier watches us, while we watch him.

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Kim takes the train for the nearly day-long trip, crossing the Tumen River border into Russia.

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