Citations:North Pyongan

English citations of North Pyongan

• 1956, Shannon McCune, “Mineral and Hydroelectric Power Resources”, in Korea's Heritage: A Regional & Social Geography‎^[1], 1st edition, Charles E. Tuttle Company, published 1963, →OCLC, page 222:

  The major gold mining areas in northern Korea were originally developed with American capital and technical skill. The most famous mines are the Unsan and Pukchin mines, located in the mountainous area northeast of the plains of North Pyongan Province.

• [1993 August 9 [1993 April 8], Zhongqing Tian, “Change in Overall Situation on the Korean Peninsula”, in JPRS Report China‎^[2], number 93-057, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

  Some newspapers in the United States, in Japan, and in South Korea printed photographs of North Korean nuclear reactors and nuclear plants, photos that were said to have been taken by U.S. military satellites. Most of the exposures were from a nuclear research establishment at Ninghian Chun in Pingan Beidao, only 80 km from Pyongyang.]

• [2004 April 24, James Brooke, “North Korea Appeals for Help After Railway Explosion”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-05-11‎^[4]:

  On Saturday, two days after the explosion, Pyongyang's state-controlled news media made the first acknowledgment of the disaster, saying only that the damages were very serious. "An explosion occurred at Ryongchon railway station in North Phyongan Province on April 22 due to the electrical contact caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and tank wagons," the Korean Central News Agency said.]

• [2012 March 16, “US: NKorea planned rocket launch a ‘deal-breaker’”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-06-07‎^[6]:

  Liftoff will take between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launch pad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media.]

• 2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013‎^[7], Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:

  I worked at a clothing export factory from May 2004 to February 2010 at Pihyon County, North Pyongan Province. They exported manufactured clothing to China, and with the money they earned, they issued regular rations. The amount was 14kg of rice and 1 kg of cooking oil per month, and 1 kg of sugar every 3 months.

• 2015 March 1, Anna Fifield, “North Korea’s Ebola quarantine — what’s it really about?”, in The Washington Post‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 April 2015, Asia & Pacific‎^[9]:

  All North Koreans who enter China are put into quarantine when they return, even though it’s just a bridge away, and are held in one of three quarantine zones — in Pyongyang, in North Pyongan province and in Sinuiju, the city on the other side of the Yalu river from Dandong.

• [2017 July 4, Louis Emanuel, “North Korea tests US with latest missile launch on Independence Day”, in The Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2022‎^[11]:

  The “unidentified ballistic missile” was fired from a site near Panghyon in North Phyongan province, the South’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement, and came down in the East Sea, the Korean name for the Sea of Japan. It flew for “several hundred kilometres”, an unusually long time, they added.]

• 2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE‎^[12], archived from the original on 01 July 2018:

  Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.

• [2019 September 24, Jane Chung, Ju-min Park, Hyunjoo Jin, “South Korea confirms fifth case of African swine fever”, in Tom Hogue, Jason Neely, editors, Reuters‎^[13], archived from the original on 2023-06-07, WORLD NEWS‎^[14]:

  In North Korea, which faces chronic food shortages, swine fever has killed all pigs in North Phyongan province, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s intelligence agency.]

• [2020 August 11, “Anti-epidemic Activities Further Intensified in DPRK”, in Korean Central News Agency‎^[15], archived from the original on 16 July 2022:

  Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Hygienic and anti-epidemic centers across the country are making a strict analysis of water quality in rivers and streams as required by the anti-epidemic regulations in the current rainy season.
  The centers in border areas of North Phyongan Province are intensifying the examination of water in Amnok River, its tributary streams, lakes and heads of water.]

• 2020 August 27, Alexander Chee, “My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea”, in The New York Times‎^[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-27‎^[17]:

  My grandfather began as a young fisherman, selling his catch at a market held on boats in the open ocean, before learning he could study fisheries at university.
  August 1945 found them living near Sinuiju, in North Pyongan Province, along the border with China, just north of Pyongyang, where he had been assigned to work as a civil servant in a fisheries laboratory run by the colonial government.