This year, at the winter Asian games in North-East China, South Korean skaters held up signs which read: "Mount Paektu is our territory."

今年，几位南韩短道速滑选手在中国东北举办的冬季亚运会上，高举“长白山是我国领土”的标语。

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But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people.

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