pyongyang in English

noun
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the capital of North Korea; population 3,255,400 (est. 2008). The oldest city on the Korean peninsula, it was first mentioned in records in 108 bc . It developed as an industrial city during the years of Japanese occupation 1910–45.

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1. Pyongyang has spoken instead of an " exchange of views " .

2. The county is also connected to Kanggye and Pyongyang by road.

3. Pyongyang is also the seat of all major North Korean security institutions.

4. The Pyongyang Marathon has been held in April since 1981, with some interruptions.

5. Pyongyang immediately threatened retaliation, while Beijing police sealed off the South Korean embassy.

6. A spokesman for the Pyongyang Okryu-gwan denied that any such contract existed, while Kim clarified that he had not contracted directly with the Pyongyang Okryu-gwan but rather with Chongryon.

7. However, the family had been recalled to Pyongyang just before Thae's defection.

8. He continued these hostilities as king, taking Pyongyang in 377 with 30,000 men.

9. With this Pyongyang Neng Myun... you put the vinegar right onto the noodles.

10. Pyongyang fell to Japanese forces by the early morning of 16 September 1894.

11. In June 1994, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter travelled to Pyongyang for talks with Kim.

12. 28 U.S. officials were circumspect Tuesday about the actions they're seeking to take against Pyongyang.

13. Pyongyang railway station serves the main railway lines, including the Pyongui Line and the Pyongbu Line.

14. Russia calls on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear and missile programmes and return to the NPT.

15. Seoul had abstained from three previous votes under a policy of non - confrontational engagement with Pyongyang.

16. We are broadcasting from a station outside of Pyongyang for this very special edition of:

17. The stalemate allowed Pyongyang to temporize untiltheendofthe Bush administration and set up a new roundofprovocation.

18. I was in Pyongyang with the High Representative and the Swedish Prime Minister almost two years ago.

19. Taedonggang has been exported, even to South Korea, from 2005 until 2007 when Pyongyang increased its price.

20. The sides condemned the actions of Pyongyang that are a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1718.

21. Chinese state media Xinhua greeted the decision of holding the next inter-Korea leaders' summit in Pyongyang.

22. In January Pyongyang, feigning anger at the latest unanimous censure from the UNSC, as good as confirmed this.

23. Kim Jong-un departed from Pyongyang on February 23, according to images released by the KCNA news agency.

24. The test comes nearly two weeks after Pyongyang test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast.

25. KCNA also collaborates with Reuters and the Associated Press, the latter of which has a permanent bureau in Pyongyang.

26. Agape international started this project in September 2007 in partnership with the Non-Conventional Energy Development Center (NCEDC) , Pyongyang.

27. The supreme standing state organ is the Pyongyang People's Committee, responsible for everyday events in support of the city.

28. In late 2003, Ju was recalled to Pyongyang and replaced Choe Yong-su as Minister of Public Security in 2004.

29. A few days later, Kim Jong-il was quoted on Radio Pyongyang as saying, "Cowards, leave if you want to.

30. “It is long past due for Pyongyang to be held accountable for its crimes against humanity,” Fisher said.

31. North Korean pop music is available for visitors to Pyongyang at the Koryo Hotel or Number One Department Store.

32. As a little treat, I was taken for a ride on the Pyongyang metro, including some stations not usually open to visitors.

33. Kim Jong-il's personal chef Kenji Fujimoto stated, "Stores in Pyongyang were brimming with products and people in the streets looked cheerful.

34. In this context, we hope the New York Philharmonic concert in Pyongyang will serve as a reveille to wake up the hermit kingdom.

35. The move prompted the US to rule out the resumption of six-party talks on nuclear disarmament that Pyongyang abandoned two years ago .

36. On Monday, Pyongyang belittled as "utterly brigandish logic" the U. S. position that the financial sanctions have no relationship to the nuclear talks.

37. It has not pointed the finger at Pyongyang and gave play to North Korean claims that the border exchange was triggered by South Korea .

38. After a brief period spent in Jilin Province, China due to the Korean War, she returned to Pyongyang with her brother, Kim Jong-il.

39. 17 Such programs would help enmesh North Korea in greater cooperation with the outside world, with benefits that Pyongyang might be loath to abandon.

40. We call for all countries around the world to take action and reinforce this message to Pyongyang and to rigorously enforce the UN Security Council resolutions.

41. Japan and North Korea also have plenty of wartime history, while the long-running issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang continues to smolder without resolution.

42. We had our first reality check at Pyongyang airport, when our mobile phones were confiscated. This evidence of total state control was immediate and shocking.

43. The latest United Nations Security Council resolution sanctioning North Korea for its May 25 nuclear test has driven Pyongyang to fresh paroxysms of faux fury.

44. In 1991, the United Nations simultaneously admitted North and South Korea, which most countries had previously recognized as a single country ruled by Pyongyang or Seoul, as Coequals.

45. Pyongyang Racer was developed in 2012 by a few Kim Chaek University of Technology students working with Nosotek, a North Korean venture capital company focusing on information technology.

46. In addition to its airport, the county is served by the Pyongra Line railway, which stops at Kilju Chongnyon Station and connects it to Pyongyang and Rason.

47. In May 2014, following the collapse of an apartment building in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un was said to be very upset at the loss of life that resulted.

48. State television broadcast a lengthy paean to Mr Kim on Thursday, a day after tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in Pyongyang to celebrate the rocket launch.

49. As we see countries start to close diplomatic and economic paths to the DPRK, we have seen Pyongyang redouble its efforts to generate currency and cultivate other diplomatic relationships.

50. Pyongyang has on several occasions restricted access across the North-South border by suppliers of raw materials, and last month announced the nullification of wage and rent contracts there.