Thousands of families raise chickens in the city of Dehui, where the plant is located, not far from the North Korean border.
Mr. Obama will also visit the inter-Korean border known as the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, which every president has done since Ronald Reagan.
That was well before normalization, when South Korean businessmen felt nervous about visiting a part of China so close to the North Korean border.
Thousands of families raise chickens in the city of Dehui, where the plant is located, not far from the North Korean border, which pitches itself as a broiler city.
On Monday the widows of a former South Korean president and a former South Korean business tycoon crossed the inter-Korean border for a trip to Pyongyang to pay condolences.
Meanwhile, the U.S. said a U.S. military helicopter crashed near the North Korean border Tuesday during joint military drills with South Korean forces, but that there were only a few light injuries among the 21 passengers.
Most of them try to blend in with China's own ethnic Korean communities near the border, and find work.
There has been no confirmation of the North Korean casualties and no unusual activity observed on the North Korean side of the border.
Meanwhile, South Korea said the North appeared to have cut the inter-Korean phone link at the border village of Panmunjom, through which the two sides communicate on issues along the border.
Separately, South Korea said the North appeared to have cut the inter-Korean phone link at the border village of Panmunjom, through which the two sides communicate on issues along the border.
Cross-border acquisitions by South Korean companies should be led by the private sector, and state-run institutions such as KDB should play a "cheerleader role, " he said.
It is about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Sinuiju, the North Korean city at the country's busiest border crossing with China.
On Friday, Russia - which shares a border with North Korea - summoned US and South Korean envoys to urge them to cancel the exercises, saying Moscow was "deeply concerned" about rising tensions in the region.
Bush flew to the DMZ by helicopter from the South Korean capital, Seoul, just 30 miles (50 km) from the border.
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