YALU RIVER'S UNENDING FLOW

Decades after war scarred its banks, the waterway remains a living conduit of blood-forged camaraderie and the quiet, everyday friendships bridging China, DPRK

Every morning, residents of Dandong, in Northeast China's Liaoning province, stroll along the banks of the Yalu River. Across the water is Sinuiju, a city in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, close enough to see apartment buildings and passing vehicles.

For generations, the river has served not only as a border, but as a witness to friendship, the resistance to war, and everyday exchanges between the two peoples.