Noktundo

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Former island between Russia and North Korea

title: "Noktundo" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["landforms-of-north-korea", "former-islands", "former-islands-of-russia", "north-korea–russia-border", "peninsulas-of-asia", "korean-irredentism", "korea–soviet-union-relations", "geography-of-primorsky-krai", "territorial-disputes-of-south-korea"] description: "Former island between Russia and North Korea" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noktundo" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Former island between Russia and North Korea ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox islands"]

Field	Value
disputed	no
name	Noktundo
type	peninsula
image_caption	Noktundo depicted in Daedongyeojido
image_map	Daedongyeojido (Gyujanggak) 02-01.jpg
pushpin_map	Russia Primorsky Krai#Russia
location	Tumen River
country	Disputed
Russia (controlled)
South Korea
country_admin_divisions	Primorsky Krai (Russia)

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Noktundo (; ) was an island in the delta of the Tumen River on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and North Korea. The area of the island was 32 sqkm.

Noktundo had been a Korean territory since the 15th century. The Jurchens took notice of this. In 1587 there was a battle fought on this island between the local Koreans and the invading Jurchens. At first, the Jurchens successfully sacked the island and captured 160 Koreans as prisoners. As they crossed the river back to their camp with the prisoners, the famed Korean general Yi Sun-Shin chased after the invaders, rescued 50 Koreans, and defended the island. With his army, he later infiltrated the nearby Jurchen army camp, and captured their leader alive.

Due to changes in the canal and sand sediment, the island was eventually adjoined to the north shore, which was part of the Qing dynasty.

The island was under Korean control until 1860 when Russia forced the Qing dynasty to cede Outer Manchuria along with Noktundo in the Convention of Peking without any Korean participation. When the Joseon government found this out in the 1880s, this became to the Koreans a matter of protest, as they claimed that the Russians had no authority to do so, and protested against it to the Qing dynasty. In 1990, Soviet Union and North Korea signed a border treaty which made the border run through the center of the river leaving the territory of the former island on the Russian side. South Korea refused to acknowledge the treaty and demanded that Russia return the territory to Korea.

Koreans continued to live on Noktundo until the 1930s.

In popular culture

Korean general Yi Sun-Shin's 1587 battle on the island is referenced and shown in the 2022 film Hansan: Rising Dragon directed by Kim Han-min.

References

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