• Russia's Deepening Ties to North Korea: China's Gateway to the Arctic?

    By Jake Rinaldi, Brandon Tran

    Recently, the Moscow Times reported that Russia would coordinate a deal with China and North Korea to allow Chinese ships to navigate through a seventeen-kilometer stretch of the Tumen River to the Rason Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the Pacific coast. The Tumen forms the border between China and North Korea, but its final section marks the border