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

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.

From Ozy

I doubt that anyone outside the inner circle in Pyongyang knows.

From The Daily Beast

Pyongyang has signed five denuclearization agreements in the past but reneged on all.

From Time

Pyongyang is much further along than Iran on both nuclear weapons and missiles.

From Ozy

Prime Minister Hun Sen has somehow maintained relations with Pyongyang as well as key donors Seoul and Washington.

From Ozy

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast