{"id":152861,"date":"2026-06-12T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152861"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:06","slug":"why-a-tiny-river-on-russias-border-tests-chinas-ties-with-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152861","title":{"rendered":"Why a tiny river on Russia\u2019s border tests China\u2019s ties with Kim Jong-un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Tumen River has resurfaced as one of the big issues for keen observers of relations between China and North Korea but after the leaders of the two countries met this week, there was no mention of it in the official statements after the summit.<br \/>\nThe river is a natural border between China, North Korea and Russia, and a narrow strip of it that runs between North Korea and Russia blocks Chinese access to open waters.<br \/>\nBeijing has long tried to convince its two neighbours to open the waterway to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356890\/why-tiny-river-russias-border-tests-chinas-ties-kim-jong-un?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Tumen River has resurfaced as one of the big issues for keen observers of relations between China and North Korea but after the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}