Meaning of Uiju | Babel Free

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A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.

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“It is learned on good authority that China intends to dispatch troops to Korea by land, and they are said to have already reached Uiju.”

“Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.”

“Mukedeng next tried to get more information on the frontier by ordering some minor local officials to write a detailed description of all they knew about the geography between Uiju and the Pyesagun as far as Kapsan, even including the six commanderies in the lower stretches of the Yalu River.”

“Visitors to Sinuiju are often diverted to the city of Uiju, further north along the Amnok. It was first known as Ryongman, meaning ‘a river bend with dragons’, but the city’s history is largely steeped in battling invaders from every direction, mostly from China. From Koguryo a fort existed here and the city never lost its military significance. Peaceful trade links over the river made Uiju prosperous in times of peace, and it was the provincial capital from 1907 to 1923, when Sinuiju took over.”

“NKHR2008000011 2008-08-12; North Korean defector XXX testified that in March 2004 at Uiju County, North Pyongan Province he/she and two sisters also received one year sentence on charges of illegal border crossing, but had to serve more than a year at No. 11 correctional center. (Interview with defector XXX in Seoul on June 15, 2008).”

“Two short-range ballistic missiles took off from Uiju, a county near the northwestern corner of North Korea, and flew 267 miles before crashing off the country’s east coast, the South Korean military said.”

“Commercial satellite images indicate that the first North Korean freight train that crossed the Yalu River last week then returned from China and unloaded cargo at an airfield in the border town of Uiju, according to the North Korea-focused 38 North website. The airfield is believed to have been converted to disinfect imported supplies, which may include food and medicine.”

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