The tripoint CNKPRU has been established, according to a news item
dated June 25 of this year (
http://www.utro.ru/news/2002/06/25/85601.shtml ). The text:
Russia, China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have
signed a protocol on the meeting point of the state boundaries of the
three countries on the Tumannaja river. The Russian side calls this
document "very important".
Russian diplomats reckon that the signing of the protocol on the
tripoint enables the conclusion of the demarcation activities on the
Tumannaja. For the Russo-Chinese boundary, which is 4195 km in length,
the parties "have finalised the juridical description of the already
marked boundary line".
On the Russo-Korean boundary a boundary line review has taken place.
Because of the fact that the river has changed its course considerably,
it was necessary to designate the boundary line, which is allowed by
the boundary treaty of 1990 "when natural changes take place". New
boundary posts have been erected at the Tumannaja.
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I am very curious about this tripoint, although it probably will be
next to impossible to get a good map for this one. The point is that
this tripoint may be a bit like BEDELU, because the Tumannaja/Tumangan
river is reported to be some sort of a river condominium between China
and North Korea. This I read from this article from 1998:
http://asiapacific.narod.ru/countries/koreas/border_regulation.htm ,
which I have posted before here at BP. One part from this article:
The search for the location of the tripoint of Russia, North Korea, and
China was delayed. Four rounds of trilateral talks, held between 1993
and 1996, ended without results. The problem is a specific one because
here no "classical" tripoint can exist, the Russo-Korean and
Russo-Chinese boundaries in the Tumannaja being based on different
principles: the first runs through the middle of the river and has the
form of a line, but the second (and this is unique in the world) runs
along the full width of the river and has the form of a band. It is
also difficult to establish the middle line in the river (on that line
the tripoint has to be located), because the width of the river changes
considerably depending on the season and the weather. In this regard it
is necessary to establish in the trilateral talks a single definition
of the river's width, which is a value depending on the state of the
river in a measured period, i.e. at an average, stable, water level in
the river. This is a generally acknowledged international rule for the
establishment of state boundaries in non-navigable rivers. This means
that even when water levels are low the tripoint (or, which is the
same, the starting point of the Russo-Korean boundary) has to be on the
water surface of the river, and by no means on dry ground. It seems
that it is still difficult to come to a single opinion about this.
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It seems to be a triPOINT after all, but it is nigh impossible to draw
any conclusions from the little information I can find.
But it remains a very interesting tripoint.
Peter S.
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