welcome ben
we havent been there yet but have collected quite a
few pix & maps of the area & markers
& even this probably legal description of the
trijunction
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12459
which we have studied carefully
& so can probably say this much at this point about
your findings
the google depiction of the tripoint
like practically all google boundary overlays
which are routinely hundreds of meters off line
is in this case substantially mistaken also
just as you rightly suspected
the cnkp border does indeed follow the river
just as you also surmise
down to within a couple hundred meters of the railroad
bridge
more as less as prefigured on this old map
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/korea/200k/11-52-17.jpg
but it seems that tho the left half of the river is
still china
the right half is now held in common by china & north
korea as a condominium or joint zone
so instead of a tripoint we believe there is actually
a triline there
just above the bridge
extending from the right bank to the exact middle of
the river
& at each end of this cnkp condominial triline is a
tripoint of sorts also
namely a cnkp kp ru tripoint on the right bank
& a cn cnkp ru tripoint in the middle
i hope thats clear
we can provide more particulars or exactitude if
wanted
--- benofford <
benofford@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found with interest (on Google earth) the
> North Korea, Russia
> and China tripoint - one that I would imagine is
> rather difficult to
> visit!
>
> Here you can see where google puts the tripoint. I
> would imagine that
> the North Korean frontier follows the river;
>
>
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/photos/view/fa19?b=1
>
> Here, is a shot looking over the North Korean border
> town, you can see
> a railway yard and buildings near by. Also you can
> see what might
> appear to be a Chinese border wall.
>
>
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/photos/view/fa19?b=2
>
> And finally a border bridge (rail I think)
> connecting Russia and North
> Korea.
>
> The Google Earth co-ordinates are 42 degrees
> 25'27.10" North and 130
> degrees 36'51.94 East.
>
> So - has anybody ever been there or near? What do
> you all think?
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