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Post By klausmong1

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Hi
You won't find much information about this area for 1 simple reason???? NO ONE GOES THERE???
If the Russian Army don't arrest you then the North Korea Army will properly try and shoot you from across the border.
Here is a link to an RR about 1 English man and 1 Thai guy on motorbikes who in 2015 tried to ride about that area?
Link......... Chiang Mai, Thailand to Vladivostok, Russia - Page 11
Here is just a part of their very detailed report.
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This guy doesn't look happy and he's on his 2-way radio. I say to Jak, let's get out of here quick, Jak looks back and see's he has a strap all caught up in his back wheel, he has to turn the bike off and deal with it. By this time the Russian soldier with his loaded gun has come out of the gate and told me to turn my bike off. I say "no its ok where leaving", he says "no no no".
Jak has this on his GoPro, I will get it from him.
2 minutes passes and a green Russian jeep comes from inside the Army base to the gate with 4x soldiers in it. They jump out looking very serious, we're not quite sure how much trouble we're in. They tell us to ride the bikes into the Army base.
In the base parked right by the North Korean border, the soldier in charge, he has 3 stars on his shoulder, is making lots of phone calls. I manage to get a Russian guide who speaks English on the phone, its explained to him that we are in an illegal area, we will be fined and held for about 3 hours.
They take our telephones and camera's, they then tell us to follow the jeep on the bikes back to Khasan town to the main Army HQ. We get to the gate of the Army HQ, jak's helmet with the GoPro on is freaking the boss out and they put Jak's helmet in the jeep. We are put into a training room and the soldiers all go off talking. Here's Jak in the Army HQ.
All our particulars are taken, they have taken our passports. They want to know have we had any military training and who are we married too.
There is then 2 hours of documentation, we have to write a statement why we were there, we wrote we wanted to see the most eastern and southern part of Russia and the North Korean border, that seemed to satisfy the boss.
We then had to sign the statement on every page, all in Russian, we didn't know what we were admitting. We're told that a 1,000 Ruble / USD$ 15 had to be paid at the bank too
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IF THIS REPORT IS NOT GOOD WARNING TO SAY OUT FROM THIS AREA THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT IS?.
If you stay North of the restricted area you could be ok
From the Chinese side is ok and safe but you can't get to the sea China is land locked.
I have driven the bottom half of the border between China and Korea and hope to do the top half this year.
Link..... http://www.rideasia.net/motorcycle-f...ain-to-Dandong
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