Meaning of Chongjin | Babel Free

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A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, the third largest city in North Korea.

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“There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep⟳ in the open⟳. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like⟳ Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations.”

“"The North Hamgyong Provincial E-Library has 301 computers," translates Suh Byung Kim, the wiry 34-year-old guide⟳, as the head librarian speaks Korean. "It is open⟳ every day at 10 a.m. Every person in the provincial capital Chongjin can use⟳ them," he says to a group of Westerners visiting the location.”

“Mr Fowle said he left the Bible with his name⟳ in it in a bathroom under a bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Christian would find⟳ it.”

““When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear⟳ what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know⟳ this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea.”

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