Korean State Railway, running between China and P'yŏngyang runs through Ryongchŏn and is served by several stations, including in Ryongch'ŏn-ŭp. It is the...
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Ahn Doo-hee (category People from Ryongchon County)
Ahn Doo-hee (Korean: 안두희; 24 March 1917 – 23 October 1996), alternatively Ahn Doo-whi, was a Korean lieutenant who assassinated independence activist Korean...
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Korean); many of them are found in North Korea, mainly in Ryongchon County and Uiju County near the Chinese border. During the 6th century the Dugus were...
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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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17 2004 Arkhangelsk explosion 22 April 2004 North Korea Ryongchon County 54 1,249 Ryongchon disaster 11 May 2004 United Kingdom Glasgow 9 33 Stockline...
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Kim Hong-il (general) (category People from Ryongchon County)
nicknamed the "Five-star General". Kim was born on 23 September 1898 in Ryongchon County, North Pyongan Province. At age 15, shortly after the beginning of...
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Kim San (category People from Ryongchon County)
and in Korean first in 1984. Kim San was born on April 14, 1905, in Ryongchon County, North Pyongan Province, Korean Empire. He was born into a poor farming...
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Ryongch'ŏn station is a railway station in Ryongch'ŏn-ŭp, Ryongch'ŏn County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is the junction point of the P'yŏngŭi...
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1939 (age 84) Ryūsen-gun, Heianhoku-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan (today Ryongchon County, North Korea) Political party Democratic Party Alma mater Ewha Womans...
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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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North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea Ryongchon County (룡천군), also romanized as Ryongch'ŏn-kun, is a county in North Pyongan Province, North Korea....
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County, Yeongyu County 53 Uiju County, Cholsan County, Ryongchon County, Changsong County, Sakju County, Kusong, Sonchon County, Kwaksan County 54 Yongbyon...
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internationally); therefore, unfavourable stories are commonly not broadcast. The Ryongchon disaster earlier in 2004 was reported only several days after the event...
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Yŏmju and Tongrim, and to the west by Ryongchŏn and the large city of Sinŭiju. It was established as a separate county in 1952, and was subsequently reorganized...
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2008 North Korean census (section Population by Sex and by Urban-Rural, by City/District/County and Province)
(피현군) 110,637 52,901 57,736 48,812 23,460 25,352 61,825 29,441 32,384 Ryongchon (룡천군) 135,634 64,061 71,573 69,151 32,745 36,406 66,483 31,316 35,167...
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- Anju North Pyongan Province Pakchon - Chongju - Sonchon - Cholsan - Ryongchon - Sinuiju (■): Motorway IS: Intersection, IC: Interchange Motorway Mokpo...
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(210 km), and largely thought to be an earthquake. Residents in nearby Lake County, Illinois saw the fireball and remembering the Peshtigo fire, fled their...
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Chungp'yŏng-ri Chilbong-ri Chunsan-ri Hyŏndong-ri Namchŏn-ri Raksu-ri Ryongchŏn-ri Samthae-ri Sangja-ri Sinsŏng-ri Susang-ri Yŏngsam-ri The city has a...
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Ryongju station is a railway station in Inhŭng-ri, Ryongch'ŏn County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngŭi Line of the...
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Ramyun were sent to North Korea as part of the aid relief program when the Ryongchŏn train station exploded, injuring many people. Insider sources have said...
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Chang-sok Pihyon: Hwang Jun-taek Ryangchaek: Kim Chol Paekma: Kim Yong-son Ryongchon: Kim Se-wan Pukjung: Hong Kwang-hyok Ryongampo: Choe Chan-il Sinam: Kim...
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320 people. April 22 – In the Ryongchon disaster, a flammable cargo explodes at the railway station in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border...
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children died and two to five more were injured. April 22 – North Korea – Ryongchon disaster: 161 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured after an...
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international aid following the collision and explosion the train in Ryongchon disaster., where the three-person team brought along medical supplies...
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