Hamhung
Americannoun
noun
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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
The road was bad and the sixty-mile journey to Hamhung took all day and into the night.
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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