Pyongyang

[ pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong- ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part.

Pyongyang

/ ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ /

noun

1. the capital of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River: industrial centre; university (1946). Pop: 3 284 000 (2005 est)

Pyongyang

1. Capital of North Korea and largest city in the country, located in west-central North Korea.

Notes

Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city, but little remains from its three-thousand-year history, after successive devastations by Japan and in the Korean War .

Example Sentences

The Bureau keeps publicly condemning Pyongyang for the Sony hack.

From The Daily Beast

And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.

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Pyongyang hackers, according to numerous reports, used Chinese IP addresses for their attacks on Sony.

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Pyongyang, for instance, is much more concerned about the release of the film in other formats.

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Pyongyang has given the Obama administration no choice but to retaliate now by imposing sanctions or even an embargo.

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