Daedong

English Proper noun en Taedong. en September 2, 2014 Anna Fifield With its water parks and new buildings, North Korea’s capital coddles the elite w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20140902225109/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/with-its-water-parks-and-new-buildings-north-koreas-capital-coddles-the-elite/2014/09/02/fbfae1e4-89ae-415f-b33f-8a1c45724de5_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/with-its-water-parks-and-new-buildings-north-koreas-capital-coddles-the-elite/2014/09/02/fbfae1e4-89ae-415f-b33f-8a1c45724de5_story.html September 2, 2014 0190-8286 2269358 Asia & Pacific A drive around Pyongyang passes building sites filled with mounds of dirt, dump trucks and cranes, where men in olive green uniforms and yellow hard hats scurry around with spades. Visitors staying at a hotel near the Daedong river go to sleep and wake up to the sound of boats dredging up sand to be made into cement. en 15 May 2016 Donald Kirk North Korea’s ‘rare’ party congress only shows a country at a standstill w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20160518021307/https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1944584/north-koreas-rare-party-congress-only-shows-country https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1944584/north-koreas-rare-party-congress-only-shows-country May 18, 2016 1563-9371 648902513 Opinion Who can forget those Arirang games enacted by tens of thousands of performers in the May Day Stadium on the Daedong River in Pyongyang, or the stunning parade of military prowess last October 10, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party? Was a single high-stepping soldier out of sync? Hardly. Was there a flaw in last weekend’s gathering in Pyongyang of the party faithful? Not likely. en DEC. 17, 2017 Kee B. Park Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20171218071259/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html December 18, 2017 0362-4331 1645522 Opinion One cool morning last April in Pyongyang, North Korea, I watched a woman squat over a patch of grass along the Daedong River. A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face. As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank. In North Korea, keeping the neighborhood clean is a civic duty. But she was far from any neighborhood. She was gathering the weeds for food. en