An adendum to the last post (short blog posts always deserve adendums) -- I came across this essay in the Dec. 17 economist, called The Amur's Siren Song. It's a decent read, more of slightly politicalized, historical review travel log than anything. No mention of any North Korean loggers, but it gets into the history of the region, some of which is also reflected in this piece on Foreign Policy, a piece of a five part series called Where Russia Meets China. The FP essay (called "Don't Call Them Twin Cities") concerns Blagoveshchensk and Heihe. I'll let you guess what city is in what country.
The comments on The Economist piece are also worth a look. Two commenters have been to remote Amur, and another is complaining about the author's us of "The Sea of Japan/East Sea" to describe the body of water east of Korea and west of Japan.
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