Yanbian Korean Autonomous PrefectureChinese Korean nameChosŏn'gŭl연변조선족자치주Hancha延邊朝鮮族自治州South Korean nameHangul옌볜조선족자치주Hanja옌볜朝鮮族自治州Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture of eastern Jilin province in Northeast China, bordered to the north by Heilongjiang province, to the west by Jilin's Baishan and Jilin City, to the south by North Korea's North Hamgyong Province, and to the east by Russia's Primorsky Krai.
Tumen RiverKorean nameChosŏn'gŭl두만강HanchaChinese Korean nameChosŏn'gŭl도문강Hancha圖們江Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicТүмэн голManchu nameManchu scriptᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ ᡠᠯᠠRomanizationTumen ulaRussian nameRussianТуманная рекаRomanizationTumannaya rekaThe Tumen River (Chinese: 图们江; pinyin: Túmén Jiāng, Russian: река Туманная, Korean: 두만강; Korean pronunciation: []), also known as the Tuman River or Duman River, is a 521-kilometre (324 mi) long river that serves as part of the boundary between China (left shore), North Korea (right) and Russia (left), rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan.
2024 Helong North Korean migrant workers unrestCasualties and lossesAccording to South Korean sources, between 11 and 14 January 2024, several thousand North Korean migrant workers in the Chinese city of Helong went on strike over unpaid wages. The civil unrest ended after North Korean authorities agreed to distribute several months' worth of pay to the workers.
JilinChinese Korean nameChosŏn'gŭl길림Manchu nameManchu scriptᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨᡤᠣᠯᠣRomanizationGirin goloJilin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) to the south, Russia (Primorsky Krai) to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, and Liaoning and Inner Mongolia to the west.North Korean migrant workersNorth Korean migrant workers are a significant source of finances for the North Korean state. Often working in hard labour fields such as construction, logging, textile production, or mining, migrant workers' conditions have been frequently described by human rights activists as a modern-day form of slavery. North Korean labourers are frequently found in China, Russia, and the Gulf states, although they are also located in other countries.Northeast ChinaNortheast China (Chinese: 东北; pinyin: Dōngběi) is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of the provincesLiaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, China's largest plain, with an area of over 350,000 km (140,000 sq mi).Traditional Chinese charactersTraditional Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets used to write the Chinese language, with the other being simplified characters. Traditional characters predominated in written Chinese, the historical lingua franca of East Asia, until the mid-20th century. Today, they are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia.
County-level cityTibetan nameTibetanརྫོང་རིམ་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།Mongolian nameMongolian scriptᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤᠨ ᠤ ᠡᠩ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠUyghur nameUyghurناھىيىسى دەرىجىلىك شەھەرA county-level city (Chinese: 县级市) is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China.
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HangulNative alphabet of the Korean languageThe Korean Alphabet System is the modern writing system for the Korean language. It has gone by a variety of names, such as Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, Hangul internationally, and Hangeul in South Korea. The script's original name was Hunminjeongeum. Before Hangul was created, Korea had been using Hanja—Chinese Characters— since antiquity.
PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
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