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Tumen City offers clear views into North Korea and attracts Chinese tourists - and sometimes North Korean fugitives who wade across the river into China. This gate was in a fence along the China-North Korea border near the Chinese city of Tumen, just across the Tumen River from the North Korean town of Namyang. China and North Korea share a 1,420km border, separated by two rivers and a mountain. DIPTYCH / Left:ДЇence along the China-North Korea border, near Tumen city, May 2015. Imagery of this mountain features in many North Korean propaganda paintings. The highest mountain on the Korean peninsula and northeast China, it is regarded by North and South Koreans as a sacred place that is their countriesвЂ™ spiritual home.

The mountain and the crater lake formed by a volcanic eruption are divided between North Korea and China. Right: Looking from China into North Korea over Mount Paektu, elevation 2,744В m, an active volcano on the border of the two countries. With its deterrent effect, it is seen as having been a bargaining chip for the US in the SALT treaties. At the time, it was one of the most advanced radar systems and had among the most powerful computers in the world. The facility, built in the early to mid 1970s at a cost of US$5.7 billion, near Langdon, North Dakota, was fully operational for only a day in October 1975 before Congress voted to shut it down. Nuclear-tipped Sprint and Spartan anti-ballistic missiles were deployed at the site to shoot down the incoming Soviet missiles. This anti-ballistic missile defense site - the only one of its kind to be built in the US - was designed to detect and intercept attacking nuclear warheads from Soviet missiles coming over the North Pole. Left: The pyramid-shaped Missile Site Control Building stands in the middle of the Stanley R Mickelsen SAFEGUARD Complex. This site, operational from 1963 to 1982, is now a museum. Crew members were never told where the missiles were targeted at. Once their keys were turned, the missile took 58 seconds to launch and 25 to 30 minutes to reach its target which could be 9,700km away. If they received orders to launch a missile, they would each have to turn a launch key at exactly the same time. There was a вЂњNo Lone ZoneвЂќ rule here, meaning there were always at least two members of the crew present. This was the desk of a launch commander in a control center which could fire a Titan II Missile tipped with a 9 megaton thermonuclear warhead вЂ“ the largest warhead ever deployed on an ICBM by the United States. The desk of a commander in the control room of a decommissioned Titan II Missile Site in Arizona, November 2017. A factory, perhaps making cement, continues production into the night in Manpo, Chagang Province, North Korea, photographed from across the Yalu River from close to the northeastern Chinese city of JiвЂ™an, Jilin province. DIPTYCH / Left:ДЄ factory producing into the night, in Manpo, North Korea, October 2017.

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From вЂњFalloutвЂќ, a series on humansвЂ™ experience with nuclear weapons, past and present. PyongyangвЂ™s latest nuclear test, on September 3 (2017) recorded as a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in North KoreaвЂ™s northeast. Japanese news reports in October (2017) said that a tunnel at the site had collapsed, killing as many as 200 North Koreans. Hyesan is 120 km from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site where North Korea is estimated to have conducted six underground nuclear tests since 2006. The city of Hyesan in North KoreaвЂ™s Ryanggang province sits across the Yalu River from the Chinese border town of Changbai. The North Korean city of Hyesan, about 120km from North KoreaвЂ™s nuclear test site, October 2017. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex near Langdon, North Dakota, in the mid 1970s вЂ“ a radar and anti-ballistic missile defence site which was shuttered by 1979. A missile field in rural North Dakota near the Canadian border which held Sprint and Spartan anti-ballistic missiles designed to intercept attacking nuclear warheads from Soviet missiles coming over the North Pole. Hatches over silos which in the 1970s held missiles meant to shoot down incoming Soviet warheads, North Dakota, November 2017. My intention was to get the viewer to suspend their sense of place and perhaps moral judgement: who gets to call whom a вЂњrouge stateвЂќ or decide how many nuclear warheads is too many?ДЇeatured in The New Yorker: From вЂњFalloutвЂќ, 2017, 35mm digital. In this exhibition commission for the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 - won by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) - I created a series of diptychs pairing nuclear-related landscapes from the North Korea-China border and the United States. Fallout (China-North Korea border, United States, 2017)