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Chinese and South Korean tourists take makeshift tour boats like this to travel parallel along the North Korean side of the Yalu River. The broken bridge was bombed by U.S. airmen in 1950 at the start of the Korean war. (Kevin G. Hall/MCT)
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Brand new high-rise buildings dot the riverfront of China's side of the Yalu River. Across the waterway is the North Korean police state, which hasn't seen any of the boom of its fellow communist neighbor. Dandong residents hoped the Bush adminstration would end isolation of North Korea and try to persuade it to open as China has to investment and commerce. (Kevin G. Hall/MCT)
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Chinese tourists gaze out at North Korea across the Yalu River. China's side of the river is modern and booming, North Korea's side appears stuck in the 1950's. (Kevin G. Hall/MCT)
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Soldiers (sailors) peer back at a chartered boat that ran parallel to North Korean side of the Yalu River. The waterway separates China from its impovershed neighbor, which has been under a family run dictatorship since 1948 and is part of what President Bush labels an axis of evil. (Kevin G. Hall/MCT)
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