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Bridge across North Korea's Amnok River closed off due to collapse Updated: 2015-09-28 21:07:46 KST A bridge connecting North Korea's western city of Shinuiju and the Chinese city Dangdong has been closed off due to a partial collapse. According to Korean broadcaster YTN, the northern end of the Amnok River , or the New Yalu River Bridge, caved in by four to seven meters on Monday at around 8:30 AM., while a Chinese media outlet also reported that the bridge partially sunk with a single vehicle falling in. The cause of the incident as well as the number of casualties...

The American F-86 Sabres stopped the MiG-15s—and their Russian pilots—at the Yalu. In August 1950, a Soviet air division with 122 MiG-15 jet fighters arrived in northeastern China and set up headquarters at Antung on the Yalu River, the dividing line between Chinese Manchuria and North Korea. On Oct. 18, an American RB-29 reconnaissance aircraft spotted 75 fighters on the ramp at Antung, but that did not raise much alarm for Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s United Nations Command or the US Far East Air Forces. Nor was there any great concern on Nov. 1 when a flight of F-51 Mustangs was...