North Phyongan

English Proper noun North Phyongan en North Pyongan. en April 24, 2004 James Brooke North Korea Appeals for Help After Railway Explosion w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20100511021940/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/world/north-korea-appeals-for-help-after-railway-explosion.html 0362-4331 1645522 https://archive.is/lrQG8 On Saturday, two days after the explosion, Pyongyang's state-controlled news media made the first acknowledgment of the disaster, saying only that the damages were very serious. "An explosion occurred at Ryongchon railway station in North Phyongan Province on April 22 due to the electrical contact caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and tank wagons," the Korean Central News Agency said. en March 16, 2012 US: NKorea planned rocket launch a ‘deal-breaker’ https://web.archive.org/web/20230607145213/https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-business-united-nations-f5e6c28640b640b9bb68fb3ae8283853 w:AP News https://archive.is/pyr8l Liftoff will take between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launch pad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media. en July 04 2017 Louis Emanuel North Korea tests US with latest missile launch on Independence Day w:The Times https://archive.is/Yd3G1 13 November 2022 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/north-korea-tests-us-with-latest-missile-launch-on-independence-day-kkjdsn379 0140-0460 181820531 https://web.archive.org/web/20170704092152/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/north-korea-tests-us-with-latest-missile-launch-on-independence-day-kkjdsn379 The “unidentified ballistic missile” was fired from a site near Panghyon in North Phyongan province, the South’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement, and came down in the East Sea, the Korean name for the Sea of Japan. It flew for “several hundred kilometres”, an unusually long time, they added. en SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 Jane Chung; Ju-min Park; Hyunjoo Jin South Korea confirms fifth case of African swine fever Tom Hogue; Jason Neely https://web.archive.org/web/20230607143302/https://www.reuters.com/article/southkorea-swinefever-idINKBN1W90K5 w:Reuters WORLD NEWS https://archive.is/G7NBg In North Korea, which faces chronic food shortages, swine fever has killed all pigs in North Phyongan province, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s intelligence agency. en