Pidansom

Pidansom (Korean: 비단섬, Chinese: 緋緞島: Chouduan Island[1]) is a river island in the Yalu river in North Korea. Pidansom was developed by merging of several river islands such as Sindo Island (薪島) and Maando (馬鞍島) in the 1960s. The island is home to a fishing cooperative and is also used for agriculture.[2]

The island was originally Chinese, but became Korean during the Japanese annexation of Korea. After the Korean war the Korean government offered the Island to China as a gift for their war efforts, but after the 1962 Sino-Korean border treaty the island definitively became Korean territory and 50 Chinese households were evacuated to China.[2][3][4]

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References
  1. Liu, Yue, et al. "Provenance tracing of indicative minerals in sediments of the Yalu River estuary and its adjacent shallow seas." Journal of Coastal Research 29.5 (2013): 1227-1235.
  2. Robert Winstanley-Chesters (29 December 2019). Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours: Vibrant Matter(s). Springer Nature. p. 170. ISBN 9789811500428.
  3. Hongzhou Zhang; Mingjiang Li (14 December 2017). China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia. Taylor & Francis. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-351-66980-1.
  4. Chiung-Chiu Huang; Chih-yu Shih (22 April 2016). Harmonious Intervention: China's Quest for Relational Security. Routledge. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-317-12370-5.

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