North Hamgyong

alternative North Hamgyeong

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Chongjin.

   Qingjin harbor is located in the city of Qingjin in Xianjin Beidao^([sic – meaning Xianjing Beidao]), Korea. It is divided into east and west ports.

   [1986 August 18 [1985 November-December], “An Analysis of the Expansion of Jilin's Exports to Japan”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 86-096, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 82

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   This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles.

   [1929 December, Ransford S. Miller, “Railway Development in Chosen”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXV, number 12, →OCLC, page 570, column 1

   According to the birthplace of the parents, the subjects were distributed as follows: North Hamgyong province of North Korea, 179 men and 11 women; other provinces of North Korea, 106 men and 16 women; Korea (without indication of province), 107 men and 33 women; Far East, 94 men and 39 women.[…] In order to bring out possible geographical differences in the physical type of the subjects examined, we set apart the group of natives from North Hamgyong as numerically adequately representative when we processed the data for the men.

   1963, M. G. Levin, “The Physical Types of the Koreans and Japanese”, in Henry N. Michael, editor, Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, page 290

   At least 11 and probably more of the permanent and candidate members belonged to Kim's old Kapsan faction, made up of men who fought together in Manchuria and then escaped to the Soviet Union. At least 8 of the top 11 members were from North Hamgyong Province and most were either educated in Russia or formerly involved in Soviet affairs.

   1976, Wayne S. Kiyosaki, “The Perils of Independence and Belligerency: 1965-69”, in North Korea's Foreign Relations: The Politics of Accommodation, 1945-75, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86

   Provincial data on the 1949 elections for North Hamgyŏng Province show that about 40 percent of those elected to provincial, city, and county posts were peasants, about 30 percent were workers.

   1990, Bruce Cumings, “Notes”, in The Origins of the Korean War, volume II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 829

   In 2011, there were five family physicians in Kang-an dong, Hoeryeong City, North Hamgyong Province. The number was reduced, and only one is currently serving, and he does not play his proper role of being a family physician.

   2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 335