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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

Over the weekend, Pyongyang also detained three officials at the northern Chongjin shipyard, where the destroyer was built and where its launch failed.

From BBC ● May 25, 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

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