Pyongyang
a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part.
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How to use Pyongyang in a sentence
In October, he had the handwriting of an entire neighborhood’s residents checked to track down the author of a rare piece found on a fence in Pyongyang.
I doubt that anyone outside the inner circle in Pyongyang knows.
New Kim Jong Un Purge Suggests North Korea Is in Deep Shit | Donald Kirk | July 9, 2021 | The Daily BeastPyongyang has signed five denuclearization agreements in the past but reneged on all.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in Makes One Last Attempt to Heal His Homeland | Charlie Campbell | June 23, 2021 | TimePyongyang is much further along than Iran on both nuclear weapons and missiles.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has somehow maintained relations with Pyongyang as well as key donors Seoul and Washington.
The Bureau keeps publicly condemning Pyongyang for the Sony hack.
FBI Won’t Stop Blaming North Korea for Sony Hack -- Despite New Evidence | Shane Harris | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.
Pyongyang hackers, according to numerous reports, used Chinese IP addresses for their attacks on Sony.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack | Gordon G. Chang | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPyongyang, for instance, is much more concerned about the release of the film in other formats.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack | Gordon G. Chang | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPyongyang has given the Obama administration no choice but to retaliate now by imposing sanctions or even an embargo.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack | Gordon G. Chang | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for Pyongyang
P'yng-yang
/ (ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ) /
the capital of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River: industrial centre; university (1946). Pop: 3 284 000 (2005 est)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Pyongyang
[ (pyung-yahng, pyawng-yahng) ]
Capital of North Korea and largest city in the country, located in west-central North Korea.
Notes for Pyongyang
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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