Manpo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 만포(滿浦) (Manpo).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mänʹpôʹ

Proper noun

Manpo

1. A municipal city in Chagang Province, North Korea.
   • 1966, William F. Dean, William L. Worden, “My Three Years as a Dead Man”, in Post True Stories of Courage and Survival‎^[2], 1st edition, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207:

     We finally reached Choesin-dong, a suburb of Manpo and on the Yalu River border between Korea and Manchuria, that day.

   • [1993 February 12 [1993 February 11], “KCNA Details Youth's Exploits, Deeds”, in Daily Report: East Asia‎^[3], number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Pyongyang KCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:

     Under the warm loving care they performed such exploits as finishing the 250 kilometre long railway construction in the Hyesan-Manpho section in a little more than five years by digging tunnels through high and steep mountains and building railway bridges across swift river currents and deep valleys.
     Comrade Kim Chong-il saw to it that many tunnels and railway bridges were named “youth” and “speed campaign youth” and the railway section between Hyesan and Manpho was called the youth line so that the proud feats of the young builders could be conveyed to the posterity.]

   • 2010 August 26, Choe Sang-Hun, Sharon LaFraniere, “Carter Wins Release of American in North Korea”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 09, 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     After watching Mr. Kim’s movements for the past few days, the South Korean authorities said his train had crossed the border with China, traveling from the North Korean town of Manpo to Jian in China, according to an official at the presidential Blue House in Seoul.

   • 2019 April 9, Lee Jeong-ho, “China’s bridge to North Korea opens 3 years after it was built – but why now?”, in South China Morning Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 09, 2019, China‎^[7]:

     A border checkpoint and bridge connecting the Chinese city of Jian with North Korea’s Manpo were open on Monday, following three years of delays since they were built.

   • [2019 May 3, Théo Clément, “The Jian-Manpho Bridge: Another Failed Attempt at Economic Integration or One More Nail in the Coffin of “Maximum Pressure”?”, in 38 North‎^[8], archived from the original on 05 May 2019‎^[9]:

     In particular, the recent opening of a bridge connecting the Chinese city of Jian (集安) and the North Korean town of Manpho (만포, 满浦) suggests that both the DPRK and China seem to be willing to open what would be a third economic cooperation corridor, in addition to the main Dandong-Sinuiju axis and the already existing Hunchun-Rason routes linking North Hamgyong Province with the Yanbian Korean Prefecture of Jilin Province.]

   • 2023 March 29, Eugene Whong, Jeongeun Ji, Jaewoo Park, “Satellite photos point to chemical plant’s role in North Korea’s nuclear program”, in Malcolm Foster, editor, Radio Free Asia‎^[10], archived from the original on March 29, 2023‎^[11]:

     The report analyzed 514 satellite images that showed specialized chemical transport rail cars both at the plant, located near the city of Manpo on North Korea’s border with China, and at the Yongbyon nuclear facility about 155 kilometers (96 miles) to the southwest, highly suggesting that the chemicals made at the plant are transported to Yongbyon.

Translations

municipal city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滿浦／满浦 (Mǎnpǔ)

• Korean: 만포 (manpo)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Manpo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[12], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1874, column 2