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• Chongjin
  Chongjin

  noun

  a seaport in W North Korea.
• Chŏngjin
  Chŏngjin

  noun

  a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)

Chongjin

American  

[chœng-jin] / ˈtʃœŋˈdʒɪn /

noun

1. a seaport in W North Korea.

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Chŏngjin British  

/ ˈtʃʌŋˈdʒɪn /

noun

1. a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)

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Chongjin

KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, identified those detained as the chief engineer of the northern Chongjin shipyard where the destroyer was built, as well as the construction head and an administrative manager.

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

A month before Bae’s and Miller’s release, North Korea also freed Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio municipal worker who was detained for six months for leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the city of Chongjin.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Haishen is also expected to draw near North Korea’s port city of Chongjin late Monday.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2020

“Nothing to Envy” followed six refugees from the port city of Chongjin.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020

In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden