Noktundo
Noktundo | |||||||
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Hangul | ë…¹ë‘”ë„ / ë¡ë‘”ë„ | ||||||
Hanja | 鹿屯島 | ||||||
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Russian name | |||||||
Russian | Ðоктундо |
Noktundo is a former island in the delta of the Tumen River on the border between Primorsky Krai and North Korea.[1] The area of the island was 32 square kilometres (12 sq mi).[2]
In the 15th century, Noktundo belonged to the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. In 1587 there was a battle fought on this island between the Jurchen and the local garrison under the control of Yi Sun-sin, a national hero of Korea.
At the time of the shallowing of the northern branch of the Tumen, the course of the river changed from time to time. As a result, the island of Noktundo was sometimes joined with the mainland of Primorsky Krai. Regardless, the island remained under Korean jurisdiction.
Under the 1860 Convention of Peking, the Qing Dynasty ceded the island to the Russian Empire. This became a matter of protest to the Koreans, who claimed that the Qing had no authority to do so.[3] In 1990, the former Soviet Union and North Korea signed a border treaty which made the border run through the center of the river leaving territory of the former island on Russian side. South Korea refuses to acknowledge the treaty and demanded that Russia returns the territory to Korea.[4]
References
- ↑ ì´ì˜¥í¬ [Yi Ok-heui]; 최한성 [Choe Han-seong]; ì•ˆìž¬ì„ [An Jae-seop] (2004). "ë‘만강 하구 녹둔ë„ì˜ ìœ„ì¹˜ ë¹„ì •(批æ£)ì— ê´€í•œ 연구 [Geographical Study on the Location of Nokdun-do in lower Tuman river]". 《대한지리학회 2004ë…„ ì¶˜ê³„í•™ìˆ ëŒ€íšŒë…¼ë¬¸ì§‘ã€‹ [Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Korean Geographical Society]. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- ↑ "우리땅 ìš°ë¦¬é‚ ì˜í† ë¶„ìŸ í˜„ìž¥ì„ ê°€ë‹¤ 10 잊혀진 섬 녹둔ë„", Donga Ilbo, 2004-06-10, retrieved 2010-06-10; of interest even to those who do not read Korean, some maps and photos are given at the bottom of the article.
- ↑ Головнин, Ð’. И. (2008). "Прошлое как оружие (The past as a weapon)". РоÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð² глобальной политике (in Russian) 6 (35). Archived from the original on 6 December 2010.
- ↑ "The problem of the Noktundo island in the media in South Korea (Проблема оÑтрова Ðоктундо в ÑредÑтвах маÑÑовой информации Южной Кореи)" (in Russian). ru.apircenter.org. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
Coordinates: 42°22′48″N 130°42′20″E / 42.38000°N 130.70556°E