Success on a remote border with limited troops is scarcely a state affair.
Albania has reported sporadic firefights along the remote mountainous border.
Even though this remote border has a nice new highway on the Laos side, we've still never met anyone who's actually crossed here.
Borders may even be completely unmarked, a common occurrence with remote or forested borders.
People here say there is no way the army can hope to police a hilly, remote border that stretches more than 600 miles.
It is impossible to know exactly what is happening along the remote, 620-mile border.
A detective chief inspector would not, under normal circumstances, be dispatched to the remote borders of the county simply to examine a pile of old bones.
A hard, brutal way, coming in across the remote border from British Honduras.
But there is already growing evidence that the guerrillas are using the remote, permeable borders of Colombia's neighbors to wage their war.
Out in the jagged mountains along China's remote southwestern border, villagers in Xiaoshaba gather information about their future from rumors.