[KS] The Tumen Triangle Documentation Project, Issue 2

Sun Feb 16 08:49:50 EST 2014

I would like to draw the list's attention to the Tumen Triangle
Documentation Project, issue 2 of which has just appeared.  This provides
articles and comments on North East China, North East Korea and the Russian
Far East, which may be of interest to those studying Korea. As readers will
see, there is also some shameless self-publicity.

Jim Hoare 

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<http://sinonk.com/2014/02/14/the-tumen-triangle-documentation-project-issue
-2/> The Tumen Triangle Documentation Project, Issue 2

by  <http://sinonk.com/?author=15> Sino-NK 

 <http://sinonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ttp_issue_2.pdf> The Tumen
Triangle Documentation Project
Sourcing the Chinese-North Korean Border
edited by Christopher Green
preface by James Hoare

 ISSUE Two
February 2014
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full text to The Tumen Triangle Documentation Project: Sourcing the
Chinese-North Korean Border, Issue Two

"Perhaps," as Britain's former representatives in Pyongyang James Hoare
muses on p.21, "one day we will get back there."

"There" was Yanji, seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, and
"then" was the turn of the 1990s. Were it that many of our readers could
have been to the Tumen Triangle once, let alone a full two decades and more
ago! A time when the USSR was still more or less a going concern, the
massacre in Tiananmen Square was a fresh wound for so many, and Jim, then
First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, was with another
dedicated diplomatic servant of the day, Warwick Morris, then Head of
Chancery in Seoul. The two men were, they say, "just having a look around."
It was the first time for them, and clearly the first time for a lot of
their interlocutors, too.

Having seen the region first hand back then, it must have been thrilling to
look again today and recall the myriad ways in which it has changed. Blessed
are we then to have these two experienced travellers blending their combined
memories into an extended essay for this, the second edition of Sino-NK's
Tumen Triangle Documentation Project. And as for the pictures! Looking back
in this way is surely the best means by which to understand today's twists,
turns, leaps forth, and retrograde steps.

That very process of documenting not only the past but also the present is
the goal of this project, the first edition of which appeared on April 15,
2013. And that is why we are so pleased to also have some enormously
talented practitioners and academics of today writing about their
experiences on the ground inside the Tumen Triangle. Last time it was Andray
Abrahamian, and this time we have completed our Choson Exchange executive
set with a piece on Rasun from Geoffrey See. We've also got a second
fantastic piece on that quixotic SEZ at Rasun written by another analyst
with his ear firmly to the ground, Dr. Benjamin Habib. One of Sino-NK's
veteran contributors, Brian Gleason, leads the primary source charge; he has
brought together three astute former residents of Hyesan, a major
intersection within the Tumen Triangle, to discuss life in that city down
the years. Again, temporal connections abound; to look forward, one must
also look back. How was Hyesan while Jim was in Yanji?

In fact, there are so many great pieces in this edition, and a great many
people to thank as a result: our other contributing authors, Nick Miller and
our own Director of Research Dr. Robert Winstanley-Chesters, and Kim Joo-il,
who, as an energetic defender of the rights of his own North Korean kin, is
determined to remind the world that each and every nuclear test carried out
in Kilju County carries a real cost at the local level; Robert Lauler, who
took time out from his day job with North Korea Strategy Center in Seoul to
pick up the slack from an overworked Chief Editor when translations from the
original Korean were required; Gregory Pence of Toon Out the World and
Curtis Melvin of North Korea Economy Watch, who, we ought to recall,
combined on Issue 1 to provide the defining map of what constitutes our
research target (see below); Darcie Draudt, who did the design work; and
some deliberately anonymous providers of photos and cross-checking. One day
we hope not to have to keep their names a secret.

Enjoy!

Christopher Green

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Image: Curtis Melvin and Gregory Pence

The Tumen Triangle | Image: Curtis Melvin and Gregory Pence

Previous issues of the Tumen Triangle Documentation Project:

<http://sinonk.com/2013/04/15/the-tumen-triangle-documentation-project-sourc
ing-the-chinese-north-korean-border-issue-1/> Issue 1, Edited by Adam
Cathcart and Christopher Green, April 2013.

Previous SinoNK.com Documented Dossiers:

 <http://sinonk.com/2013/04/06/china-north-korea-dossier-no-4-liu-hongcai/>
Dossier No. 4, Nick Miller, "Contact Between China and the DPRK, 2010-12:
Focus on Ambassador Liu Hongcai," April 2013.

<http://sinonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sinonk-dossier-no-3-chinanorth
-korean-relations-at-the-end-of-kim-jong-il-era.pdf> Dossier No. 3, Adam
Cathcart and Michael Madden, eds. "'A Whole New Blueprint:' Chinese-North
Korean Relations at the End of the Kim Jong Il Era, October 21-December 17,
2011," preface by Stephan Haggard, August 2012.

<http://sinonk.com/2012/02/09/china-north-korea-dossier-no-2-chinas-measure-
of-reserve-toward-succession/> Dossier No. 2, Adam Cathcart and Charles
Kraus, "China's 'Measure of Reserve' Toward Succession: Sino-North Korean
Relations, 1983-1985," February 2012.

<http://sinonk.com/2012/01/19/china-north-korea-dossier-no-1-china-and-the-n
orth-korean-succession/> Dossier No. 1, Adam Cathcart, ed. "China and the
North Korean Succession," January 16, 2012.

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