Noktundo Explained

Disputed:no
Noktundo
Type:peninsula
Pushpin Map:Russia Primorsky Krai#Russia
Location:Tumen River
Country:Disputed (controlled)
Country Admin Divisions: (Russia)
North Hamgyeong (South Korea)
Noktundo
Nkhangul:록둔도 / 녹둔도
Nkrr:Nokdundo
Nkmr:Noktundo / Roktundo
Rus:Ноктундо
Ibox-Order:ko1, ko4, ko3, ru

Noktundo was an island in the delta of the Tumen River on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and North Korea.[1] The area of the island was .[2] [3]

Noktundo had been Korean territory since the 15th century.[3] The Jurchens took notice of this. In 1587 there was a battle fought on this island between the local Koreans and the invading Jurchens from nearby Russia. At first, the Jurchens successfully sacked the island and captured 160 Koreans as prisoners. As they crossed the river back to their camp with the prisoners, the famed Korean general Yi Sun-Shin, chased after the invaders and rescued 50 Koreans and defended the island. With his army, he later infiltrated the nearby Jurchen army camp, and captured their leader alive.[4]

Due to changes in the canal and sand sediment, the island was eventually adjoined to the north shore, which was part of the Qing dynasty.[3]

The island was under Korean control until 1860 when Russia forced the Qing dynasty to cede Outer Manchuria along with Noktundo in the Convention of Peking without any Korean participation.[3] [5] [6] When the Joseon government found this out in the 1880s, this became a matter of protest to the Koreans, who claimed that the Russians had no authority to do so, and protested it to the Qing dynasty.[7] In 1990, Soviet Union and North Korea signed a border treaty which made the border run through the center of the river leaving the territory of the former island on the Russian side. South Korea refused to acknowledge the treaty and demanded that Russia return the territory to Korea.[8] [9] [10]

Koreans continued to live on Noktundo until the 1930s.[3]

In popular culture

Notes and References

  1. ko:대한지리학회 2004년 춘계학술대회논문집 . Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Korean Geographical Society . ko-kr . ko:두만강 하구 녹둔도의 위치 비정(批正)에 관한 연구. Geographical Study on the Location of Nokdun-do in lower Tuman river. 이옥희 [Yi Ok-hui]. 최한성 [Choe Han-seong]. 안재섭 [An Jae-seop]. http://www.dbpia.co.kr/view/ar_view.asp?arid=557538. 2004. 2010-06-10.
  2. of interest even to those who do not read Korean, some maps and photos are given at the bottom of the article.
  3. Book: Song . Nianshen . Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919 . 3 May 2018 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-17395-8 . 58 . 7 December 2023 . en.
  4. Web site: 조선왕조실록. 2021-01-24. sillok.history.go.kr.
  5. Web site: Kang . Hyungwon . [Visual History of Korea] Do or die naval battles defined Adm. Yi Sun-sin as hero ]. . 23 June 2022 . 24 November 2023.
  6. Web site: Astorino-Courtois . Allison . Aviles . Weston . Bragg . Belinda . Kuznar . Larry . Peterson . Nicole . Popp . George . Stevenson . John . Key Actors in the Asia Pacific . Virtual Think Tank . 24 November 2023.
  7. В. И.. Головнин. ru:Прошлое как оружие. The past as a weapon. Russian. Россия в глобальной политике. 6. 35. 2008. http://www.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/35/10838.html. https://web.archive.org/web/20101206062610/http://www.globalaffairs.ru/number/n_12054. 6 December 2010. dead. 10 June 2010.
  8. Web site: http://ru.apircenter.org/publications/the-problem-of-the-noktundo-island-in-the-media-in-south-korea/ . The problem of the Noktundo island in the media in South Korea . ru:Проблема острова Ноктундо в средствах массовой информации Южной Кореи . Russian . ru.apircenter.org . 2015-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130910052035/http://ru.apircenter.org/publications/the-problem-of-the-noktundo-island-in-the-media-in-south-korea/ . 10 September 2013. live.
  9. News: Westcott . Ben . Seo . Yoonjung . South Korea fires warning shots at Russian military aircraft . 24 November 2023 . 10 News San Diego . 2019.
  10. Lanko . D.A. . Russian and Japanese approaches to the Korean Peninsula: A comparison from a societal viewpoint* . Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations . 202 . 13 . 2 . 243 . 24 November 2023.
  11. News: 호 . 배성 . 영화 '한산 : 용의 출현', 이번엔 거북선과 학익진… 이순신 명승부 펼쳐진다 . 14 November 2023 . 2022.
  12. Web site: 유 . 석재 . "거북선이 그런 구조였다고요? 세상에, 말도 안됩니다!" . Chosun . 4 August 2022 . 14 November 2023.

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