For more than a decade, Chinese villagers in the Jingxin village on the Sino-DPRK border became used to hearing the noises of shooting and finding the floating corpses of North Korean escapees in the Tumen River.

BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

There came a twinkle into his red eyes, and even his nose blinkled and twinkled, …

The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.