Editing Tumen River (section)

==Noktundo==
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[[Noktundo]], a former island (now effectively a peninsula) at the mouth of the Tumen, has been a boundary contention between Russia and North Korea.<ref name="Boundary">{{Cite journal|first=В. И.|last=Головнин|title=Прошлое как оружие (The past as a weapon) |language=ru|journal=Россия в глобальной политике|volume=6|number=35|year=2008 |url=http://www.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/35/10838.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206062610/http://www.globalaffairs.ru/number/n_12054 |archive-date=6 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Qing Dynasty]] ceded the island to Russia as part of the Primorsky Maritimes ([[East Tartary]]) in the [[Convention of Peking|1860 Treaty of Peking]].<ref name="Boundary" /> In 1990, the then [[Soviet Union]] and North Korea signed a border treaty which made the border run through the center of the river, leaving territory of the former island on Russian side. South Korea refuses to acknowledge the treaty and demanded that Russia return the territory to Korea.<ref name="The problem of the Noktundo island in the media in South Korea (Проблема острова Ноктундо в средствах массовой информации Южной Кореи)">{{cite web|url=http://ru.apircenter.org/publications/the-problem-of-the-noktundo-island-in-the-media-in-south-korea/ |title=The problem of the Noktundo island in the media in South Korea (Проблема острова Ноктундо в средствах массовой информации Южной Кореи) |language=ru |publisher=ru.apircenter.org |access-date=2015-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910052035/http://ru.apircenter.org/publications/the-problem-of-the-noktundo-island-in-the-media-in-south-korea/ |archive-date=10 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

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