Yalu

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• I requested permission to bomb the Yalu bridges to keep the Chinese out of Korea.

  MacArthur (1977)

• His letters came and then didn't come anymore after he was sent north to a place called the Yalu River.

  Fiction book (1993)

• In 1952 I was standing with my troops on the banks of the Yalu River, waiting.

  Private Benjamin (1980)

• On November 21, UN forces reached the Yalu River, the border dividing China and North Korea.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The banks of the Yalu River could not be a better example of the contrast between Chinese-style capitalism and North Korean communism.

  Blog text (13)

• MacArthur ordered B-29's to take out two bridges along the Yalu River, on the border, hoping to slow the Chinese from sending in any more troops.

  Devotion (2022)

• Earlier this month, China and North Korea broke ground to develop Hwanggumphyong Island, which sits at the estuary of the Yalu River between two border cities: Dandong on the Chinese side and Sinuiju on the North's side.

  Blog text (17)

• Especially during the spring, when color returns to the valley and to the screen of mountains that surround it, and the nearby Yalu River is swollen with alpine runoff, the area is a welcome respite from an increasingly urbanized China.

  Academic text (2002)

• Christensen's research agrees with Hunt about Kim and Mao's close relations, but it also explains that Mao's concerns about domestic economic problems delayed China's intervention until MacArthur's forces neared the Yalu River border with China.

  Academic text (1998)

• The giant Yalu River marks the boundary between North Korea and China.

Synonyms

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Yalu River

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A river in East Asia that forms part of the border between North Korea and China

focuses on physical course and flow direction toward the Korea Bay

Compounds

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Yalu River

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A river in East Asia that forms part of the border between North Korea and China

Surface Forms

Etymology