Meanings
alternative Nogeun-ri · alternative Nogun-ri · alternative Nogeun Ri · alternative Nogun Ri · alternative Nogeun Village · alternative No Gun Village · alternative Nogun Village
- A village in Hwanggan, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Chung began a years-long quest for justice, which eventually prompted the U.S. Army to acknowledge having killed civilian refugees at No Gun Ri.
2014 December 29, Bernard McGhee, “Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2014”, in AP News, archived from the original on 25 Jan 20262 more examples
The letter -- dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 -- is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.
2006 May 30, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, “Letter on Korean War Massacre Reveals Plan to Shoot Refugees Historian Discovers U.S. Envoy's Writings Relating to No Gun Ri”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2017Over the years Mr. Chung — who died on Aug. 1 at 91 at his home in Daejeon, South Korea — amassed evidence that American troops had systematically killed more than 100, and possibly as many as 400, civilian refugees early in the Korean War near a railroad bridge outside the South Korean village of No Gun Ri.
2014 August 22, Douglas Martin, “Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2014, Asia Pacific - abbreviationellipsishistoricalEllipsis of No Gun Ri massacre (“a war crime that occurred near the village”).
Origin
- Korean노근리(老斤里)
- EnglishNo Gun Ri
From Korean 노근리(老斤里) (Nogeulli).
More words from Korean
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Chinese Mandarin 老斤里
- 老斤里village
Korean 노근리, 로근리
- 노근리 (Nogeulli)village
- 로근리 (rogeulli)village
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No Gun Ri. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/No%20Gun%20Ri
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