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.

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

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