Hwanggumpyong Island
Hwanggumpyong Island is an island on the Yalu River, which forms a section of the land border between North Korea and China. The majority of the island belongs to North Korea, due to ethnic Koreans living on the island at the time of a 1962 border treaty. The island is an exclave on the otherwise Chinese side of the river.History
In June 2011, an agreement, negotiated by Gao Jingde, of Sunbase International Holdings Ltd, with China was made to establish a joint free trade area on Hwanggumpyong and Wihwa Islands, and the Chinese border area near Dandong. By 2013 the site had been prepared, and free trade area of over may be ready for operation in about two years.
As of 2019, the free trade area has not been very successful.
