Hwanggumpyong is a sandy island at the mouth of the Yalu river that divides North Korea from China.

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Much of it goes over a bridge on the Yalu River, which marks part of the border between the two nations.

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After their capture, Kapaun and wounded soldiers able to walk were marched to a prison camp near Pyoktong, just south of the Yalu River in North Korea.

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