Meaning of Kyongwon | Babel Free

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A county of North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.

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“Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.”

“Furthermore, border trade between the two countries was conducted at Chunggang (Chung-chiang), a small island in the estuary of the Yalu, Hoeryŏng (Hui-ning), and Kyŏng’wŏn (Ch’ing-yüan). The last two places are in the lower Tumen valley.”

“An, one of the closest comrades of Kim II Sung from Manchuria, was also known as An Sang-gil. He was born on February 24, 1907, in Kyŏngwŏn, Hamgyŏng pukto, and participated in Kim’s guerrilla forces all during the 1930s.”

“Before heading into Wiwŏn, Mukedeng announced that, after inspecting the corpses and the border-crossing site, he would head upriver through the Kanggye region, travelling all the way to Kyongwon on the lower reaches of the Tumen River.”

“North Korean defector XXX testified that he/she was detained at Jongori Correctional Center in 2010. At the time, XXX (man, age 27 at the time) from Kyongwon County, North Hamgyoung province, was caught stealing cooked rice from the dining hall. He was forced to carry outside and bury human waste. When agents found him unable to fulfill the task, they beat him to death, after dragging him around.”

“Mr. Han, who retired from the Hamyon coal mines at age 60, was living in Kyongwon, in northeast North Korea, when a man showed up in August 2001, asking whether he wanted to meet his South Korean relatives. Mr. Han said he followed the man across the river border to China, his youngest son tagging along.”

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