Pyŏktong County is a kun, or county, in northern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. It lies in the valley of the Yalu River, and borders China to the...
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and North Pyongan Province's Pyoktong county to the west. Originally part of Pyoktong, it was made a separate county in 1952 as part of a general reorganization...
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and the Yellow Sea. North Pyongan is divided into 3 cities (si) and 22 counties (kun). Each entity is listed below in English, Chosŏn'gŭl, and Hancha....
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Kim Ho Jik (category People from Pyoktong County)
administration of South Korean president Syngman Rhee. Kim was born at Pyoktong in what is today North Korea. For a time while a youth, Kim studied at...
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December 7, 1923, into a poor peasant family in Pyoktong County, North Pyongan Province (now Usi County, Chagang Province. His deeds before 1945 are unknown...
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Pihyon County Pyoktong County Ryongchon County Sakchu County Sindo County Sonchon County Taechon County Taegwan County Tongchang County Tongrim County Uiju...
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Jasan 55 Sunchon, Sangwon, Samdung, Yangdok, Maengsan, Kangdong, Kanggye, Unsan County, Wiwon County, Yisan County, Pyoktong County, Nyongwon County...
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Changsŏng County is a kun, or county, in northern North Phyŏngan province, North Korea. It is bordered by Pyŏktong to the east, Tongchang and Taegwan to...
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Tongchang County is a kun, or county, in the northeast of the far western North Pyŏngan province, North Korea. It borders Pyŏktong and Chagang's Usi county to...
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List of second-level administrative divisions of North Korea (redirect from Counties of North Korea)
Chŏngju, Kusŏng 22 counties (kun): Ch'angsŏng, Ch'ŏlsan, Ch'ŏnma, Hyangsan, Kujang, Kwaksan, Nyŏngbyŏn, Pakch'ŏn, P'ihyŏn, Pyŏktong, Ryongch'ŏn, Sakchu...
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Emil Kapaun (category People from Marion County, Kansas)
temporary prison camp at Sombakol, near the permanent camp (Prison Camp 5) at Pyoktong, North Korea, where they were later held. Kapaun was able to persuade some...
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village of Pyoktong, and were almost killed when U.S. B-26 bombers carried out an airstrike. The 450 POWs survived the bombing, though half of Pyoktong was incinerated...
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Tablet. Denise Fedorow (15 June 2018). "Potential saint has ties to Elkhart County". The Goshen News. Denise Fedorow (15 May 2018). "The ministry of Servant...
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