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Hamhung

American  
[hahm-hoong] / ˈhɑmˈhʊŋ /

noun

  1. a city in central North Korea.


Hamhung British  
/ ˈhɑːmˈhʊŋ /

noun

  1. an industrial city in central North Korea: commercial and governmental centre of NE Korea during the Yi dynasty (1392–1910). Pop: 753 000 (2005 est)

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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected “several” cruise missile launches made from the North’s northeastern coastal town of Hamhung.

From Washington Times • Mar. 22, 2023

Shim re-united with his brother in the Chinese city of Yanji in 1994, helped by an ethnic Korean in China who brought the sibling there from his home in the North's eastern city of Hamhung.

From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2022

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement Sunday that it had detected two projectile launches from the North’s eastern coastal town of Hamhung early Saturday evening.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2022

The service would continue to Hamhung, an industrial city and the second largest in North Korea.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2018

Shin arrived at night near the train station in Hamhung, a coastal city of about three quarters of a million people.

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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