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Pyeongyang
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en Pyongyang Q18808 capital of North Korea.
en 2006 David Hyungbok Kim Through Devestation Who Will Answer... https://archive.org/details/whowillanswer0000davi/ w:Holt International 1044736963 79 https://archive.org/details/whowillanswer0000davi/page/79/ Our unit advanced all the way to Pyeongyang, the capital of North Korea.
en 2006 Richard Saccone Rick Saccone Becoming Familiar with My New Home Living with the Enemy: Inside North Korea https://archive.org/details/livingwithenemyi0000sacc/ Hollym 9781565912342 2006927000 85708054 42 https://archive.org/details/livingwithenemyi0000sacc/page/42/ Average North Koreans had little time for the news except maybe those enjoying cushy jobs in Pyeongyang.
en 2010 May Introduction The Geography of Korea https://archive.org/details/geographyofkorea0000unse/ National Geographic Information Institute 978-89-93841-07-7 1031040102 28 https://archive.org/details/geographyofkorea0000unse/page/28/ Pyeongyang, the leading urban center in the Pyeongan Province, is the capital of North Korea and Nampo serves as the gateway port to Pyeongyang.
en 2015 Andrew Gillmore Kim Jong-Un and the Merry Band of Boneheads The Red Fish Project: A uniquely honest account of living abroad https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780994897305/ 978-0-9948973-0-5 1003862394 148 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780994897305/page/148/ Of course, it’s fun to laugh and poke fun at people like Kim Jong-Un and his merry band of boneheads. But at the end of the day, he is a real dictator doing some shady things we often turn a blind eye to, probably because no one has yet discovered massive oil deposits outside the capital of Pyeongyang.
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en metonymy en Pyongyang pyongyangmetonymy (the government of North Korea).
en 2003 Richard Saccone Rick Saccone w:Donald P. Gregg North Korean / U.S. Cultural Concepts Negotiating with North Korea https://archive.org/details/negotiatingwithn0000sacc/ Hollym Brent (Won-Ki) Choi. "Gregg: Washington and Pyeongyang Saving Face." English Joongang Ilbo. January 21, 2002. 1-56591-185-7 2003100526 988405479 49 https://archive.org/details/negotiatingwithn0000sacc/page/49/ The two sides are in a face-saving battle. Pyeongyang is insisting the U.S. recognize the joint communique issued in October 2000 and Washington continues to ignore it.
en 2006 Koh Yu-hwan Assessment of the Joint Statement of the Six-Party Talks Alfonso Ojeda; Alvaro Hidalgo North Korea and Regional Security https://archive.org/details/northkorearegion0000semi/ 84-7962-359-4 237339730 45 https://archive.org/details/northkorearegion0000semi/page/45/ Although relations between the two adversaries were frayed on occasion, Pyeongyang and Washington were able to negotiate and reach a compromise on the key issues that divided them.
en 2013 June Park Jung-hwan Choi Ryong-hae Expectations for President Park Geun-hye's State Visit to China Business Korea 31 341 https://archive.org/details/BusinessKorea_2013-06/ 1179226922 6 https://archive.org/details/BusinessKorea_2013-06/page/n6/ With regards to North Korean special envoy Choi Ryong-hae’s visit to China last month, the Global Times, one of China’s official news media said, “No matter what the purpose of the trip is, Beijing has to put pressure on Pyeongyang so that it can control its own actions.”
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