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Hoeryong
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Hoeryŏng
English
Alternative forms
en Hoeryŏng
Etymology
From en ko ^회령(會寧).
Pronunciation
hœ′rēŭng′Hoeryong 791 2 Hoeryong (hû′rēŭng′), Jap. [Japanese] Kainei,
Proper noun
en city province/North Hamgyong c/North Korea across the Tumen River from Longjing, Yanbian, Jilin, China.
en 1970 Robert H. G. Lee The Geographic and Cultural Foundation of the Chʼing Manchurian Frontier Policy The Manchurian frontier in Chʼing history https://archive.org/details/manchurianfronti0000leer/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-54775-6 70-95926 106678 10–11 https://archive.org/details/manchurianfronti0000leer/page/11/ Every year on the tenth lunar month, a trade expedition was sent to Hoi Ryong (Hui-ning in Chinese), a Korean border town, located on the bank of the Tumen River, southeast of Ninguta, where salt, rice, iron, cloth, paper, cattle, and horses were obtained. on
en April 22, 2007 At bay: the children who ran from Kim w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20261020001419/https://www.thetimes.com/best-law-firms/profile-legal/article/at-bay-the-children-who-ran-from-kim-vwhw3fwfpq9 20 October 2026 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-bay-the-children-who-ran-from-kim-vwhw3fwfpq9 0140-0460 181820531 Choi Hyok and his sister lost their parents in the 1990s, when more than 1m died of famine under Kim Jong-il's dictatorship. They were reduced to begging in the streets of Hoeryong in one of the poorest parts of North Korea, on the border with China.
en 2008 Robert Willoughby Northernmost Corner North Korea w:Bradt Travel Guides https://archive.org/details/northkoreabradtt0000will/ 2nd 1-84162-219-2 1028345136 12569771M 192 https://archive.org/details/northkoreabradtt0000will/page/192/ Keep going west and you’re ultimately in the Tuman River Area, and Hoeryong border city, opposite its Chinese counterpart, Jilin. Hoeryong is known for its white apricots and as the centre of this province’s metallurgical and coal industries. Hoeryong is the base for many monuments to Kim Jong Suk, revolutionary anti-Japanese fighter
en 06/18/2013 Esther Felden Hell on earth https://web.archive.org/web/20150622015840/https://www.dw.com/en/tortured-beaten-starved-life-in-a-north-korean-gulag/a-16889451 22 June 2015 https://www.dw.com/en/tortured-beaten-starved-life-in-a-north-korean-gulag/a-16889451 w:Deutsche Welle Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps.
en January 16, 2015 w:Anna Fifield North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20150117125706/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 Asia & Pacific When Jeon Geum-ju was a girl in Hoeryong, a depressing mining town at the very northern reaches of North Korea, she used to sing at school about the country’s supreme leader.
en January 31, 2018 w:Choe Sang-Hun North Korean Defector, Honored by Trump, Has a Remarkable Escape Story w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20180131111119/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/world/asia/north-korean-defector-trump.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific In 1996, Mr. Ji Seong-ho Ji was 13, his parents’ eldest son, living in a mining village near the city of Hoeryong in northern North Korea.
en
Synonyms
from Japanese en Kainei
from Mandarin Chinese en Huining, en Hui-ning
Translations
city
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 會寧
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko ^회령
References
Further reading
Hoeryong, Hoeryŏng
en 1998 Hoeryong Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1293 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1293/ 3