NKorea begins erecting barbed-wire fence along border with China

North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China, a news report
said Sunday, in an apparent move to prevent North Koreans
from fleeing the impoverished communist country.
The North has put in place posts along a 10-kilometer (6
mile) stretch along a narrow tributary of the Yalu River,
which marks the border between North Korea and China, and
has also built a road to guard the area, Yonhap news agency
reported.
The North has yet to string barbed wire fencing between
the posts, Yonhap reported.
The fence comes less than a year after China built a
massive barbed wire and concrete fence along its side of
the same river.
North Korea and China share an 880-mile (1,416-kilometers)
border.