Citations:Taedonggang

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English citations of Taedonggang

  • 1984 February 3 [1984 January 2], Mu Qing, “Three Trips to a Heroic Nation”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 024, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing LIAOWANG No 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs: Northeast Asia, page D 4:
    During my third trip to Korea, one morning I reached the peak of Moranbong on foot and looked into the distance in all directions: The whole city of Pyongyang was bathed in the bright, rosy rays of the morning sun, with the Taedonggang flowing quietly like a blue ribbon, and magnificent buildings and a forest of trees, with the golden leaves of late autumn, greeted the eye everywhere. The formerly desolate eastern bank of the Taedonggang had become part of the city proper.
  • 1992, Korea Journal[1], volume 32, Korean National Commission for UNESCO, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107:
    The stone walls of the fortress (main defense line) were about 6 meters high and 3 meters wide with a length of about 9 kilometers. The square of the fortress was also quite broad; for example, the fortress on the bank of the Taedonggang river was about ten kilometers squared.
  • 2017 May, “North Korea”, in Robin Barton, editor, Lonely Planet's Global Beer Tour (Lonely Planet Food), 1st edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:
    The beer, named for the Taedonggang River, is a fairly full-flavoured lager that is swilled with gusto around the country. Getting hold of a bottle outside North Korea is tough, though export to China is not unheard of.