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		Chongjin is the administrative centre of the North Hamgyong Province.
		Chongjin is located in the northeast of North Korea, in North Hamgyong Province, near the East Korea Bay in the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea).
		Chongjin is the only city in North Korea other than Pyongyang to operate the trams, which are all second-hand from Pyongyang.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Chongjin (711 words)

	Chongjin Summary
		Ch'ongjin is the capital of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
		Chongjin is the administrative centre of the North Hamgyong Province.
		Chongjin is located in the northeast of North Korea, in North Hamgyong Province, near the East Korea Bay in the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea).
	www.bookrags.com /Chongjin (895 words)

	The Standard - Dying to flee the system - Focus Section
		In the city of Chongjin, vulnerable North Koreans boys reside at a government-run orphanage.
		Chongjin's outmoded and inefficient factories had limped along on spare parts and cheap oil from the Soviet Union.
		Many Chongjin residents who are caught trying to flee the country end up back in the city, behind the barbed wire of Nongpo Detention Center.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Focus/GG07Dh01.html (2222 words)

	Trading Ideals for Sustenance - Los Angeles Times
		For most of her life, Kim Hui Suk had spouted the sayings of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung and never for a moment harbored a doubt: Capitalists were the enemy.
		Accounts of aid workers and videos taken illegally in Chongjin by disgruntled residents were also used to prepare this report.
		Just a decade ago, when people in Chongjin needed new trousers, they had to go to government-owned stores that sold items mostly in drab browns or a dull shade of indigo.
	www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chongjin4jul04,0,2287288.story?coll=la-home-headlines (924 words)

	U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
		AHN Myong Chol, a former guard, reported that all three of the kwan-li-so at which he worked had isolated detention facilities in which many prisoners died from mistreatment, and that at Kwan-li-so No. 22 there were so many deaths by beatings from guards that the guards were told to be less violent.
		LEE Soon Ok reported that she experienced beatings, strappings, and water torture leading to loss of consciousness, and was held outside in freezing January weather at the Chongjin In-min-bo-an-seong pre-trial detention center in 1986.
		KIM Yong reported that he was beaten at the bo-wi-bu police jail at Maram and was subjected to water torture and hung by his wrists in the bo-wi-bu police jail at Moonsu in 1993.
	www.hrnk.org /hiddengulag/part3.html (1340 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		The deals include an agreement to "completely open" North Korea's railways to a Hong Kong millionaire, as well as moves to revive ailing coal, iron and gold mines.
		Hong Kong businessman Qian Haomin is reported to have reached a US$3 billion deal with North Korea that also involves the Chinese Railways Ministry building a new rail link between the Chinese border city of Tumen and the North Korean port of Chongjin.
		The agreement marks an end to long-running tension between the Chinese and North Korean state railway authorities over North Korea's retention of up to 2,000 Chinese goods wagons and reluctance to repay loans.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China_Business/GK18Cb06.html (1404 words)

	Daily NK - Interview with a Citizen of Chongjin City: 10 Q and A
		Interview with a Citizen of Chongjin City: 10 Q and A
		The DailyNK met a citizen of Chongjin City of North Hamkyeong Province to fully grasp the recent situation of North Korea as a whole at this moment of seeing the old year out and the new year in.
		Because people in Chongjin City do not enjoy eating corn, it is cheap here.
	www.dailynk.com /english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=460 (1344 words)

	WAR DIARY 15 March 1951
		Steaming off CHONGJIN, KOREA, as unit of TE 95.23, composed of MISSOURI
		HOLLISTER proceeded to inshore fire station to bombard targets in CHONGJIN.
		OZBOURN and CARMICK on anti-junk patrol CHONGJIN to
	www.ussmissouri.com /KoreaWarDiary/85.htm (215 words)

	Korean War Diary 16 March 1951
		OZBOURN remained in vicinity of CHONGJIN to continue bombardment.
		Railway and highway bridges were heavily damaged and one large building and
		HOLLISTER and THOMPSON on anti-junk patrol CHONGJIN to SONGJIN; CARMICK on
	www.ussmissouri.com /KoreaWarDiary/86.htm (220 words)

	Definition of chongjin - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Chongjin — Infoplease.com
		The city has metallurgical plants, chemical factories, and fish canneries, and also produces ships, machinery, and textiles.
		Chungjin - Chungjin: Chungjin: see Chongjin, North Korea.
		Seishin - Seishin: Seishin: see Chongjin, North Korea.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0812039 (171 words)

	Chongjin at AllExperts
		Chongjin is the administrative centre of the North Hamgyong Province.
		Chongjin is located in the northeast of North Korea, in North Hamgyong Province, near the East Korea Bay in the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea).
		Chongjin divides into 7 districts: the Central Business District expands to the south, and the coast section is near the lively Sosongchon River mouth.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/chongjin.htm (738 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Chongjin
		Chongjin is divides into 7 districts, Central Business District expands to the south, coast section is lively Sosongchon River mouth.
		Chongjin is equipped with a 1.2km runway, military and civilian dual purpose air station(CHO); Also may take Chaoyangcun International Airport (YNJ), People's Republic of China.
		Chongjin famous product is feeds in raw material the squid, the flavor is tasty, is DPRK national famous product.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Chongjin (523 words)

	Glimpses of life in North Korea
		She was a feisty and idealistic 21-year-old graduate of Chongjin's Kim Jong Suk Education College — named for Kim Jong Il's mother — when she was assigned in 1994 to teach in a mining village on the southern outskirts of the city.
		Chongjin residents recall that from 1995 to 1997, factory personnel accused of dismantling their factories were executed.
		In 1995, senior officers from the 6th army corps in Chongjin were executed for disloyalty and the entire unit, estimated at 40,000 men, was disbanded.
	hompi.sogang.ac.kr /anthony/NorthKorea.htm (9515 words)

	The Schwartz Report
		Although Chongjin is only 275 miles from the capital as the crow flies, the journey takes three days by car, or about 27 hours by train.
		"Chongjin was like a forest of scrap metal, with huge plants that seem to go on for miles and miles that have been turned into rust buckets," said Tun Myat, who in 1997 became one of the first senior U.N. officials permitted to visit the city.
		Chongjin residents were learning a lesson at odds with the ideology they had been taught since they were children: The collective wouldn't save them.
	www.schwartzreport.net /showarticle.php?id=941 (4651 words)

	werbringtwasmit.de www.werbringtwasmit.de Chongjin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chongjin besitzt einen 1908 eröffneten Hafen und einen Flughafen.
		Chongjin war von 1910 bis 1945 von japanischen Truppen besetzt und entwickelte sich nach dem Koreakrieg (1950-1953) zu einem Industriezentrum mit dort ansässigen Firmen der Metallurgie, des Maschinenbaus, chemischer, Textil- und Leichtindustrie.
		Das berühmteste Produkt von Chongjin ist der Tintenfisch, der in ganz Nordkorea bekannt ist und als Delikatesse geschätzt wird.
	www.werbringtwasmit.de /wiki-Chongjin.html (242 words)

	chongjin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This image shows a section of the North Korean coast near the city of Ch'ongjin.
		The city is located on a shallow bay about 1/4 of the way up the coast from the bottom of the image.
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	www.cet.edu /ete/modules/korea/chongjin.html (71 words)

	Los Angeles Times: Trading Ideals for Sustenance
		Chongjin's people are reputed to be the most independent-minded in North Korea.
		Chongjin is known for its vicious gang wars, and it was sometimes difficult to distinguish political unrest from ordinary crime.
		Many Chongjin residents who are caught trying to flee the country end up back in the city, behind the barbed wire of Nongpo Detention Center.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news3/latimes112.htm (4903 words)

	cantonrep.com
		In a working-class neighborhood in southern Chongjin, the 39-year-old coal miner lives in a squat, drab house.
		She was a feisty and idealistic 21-year-old graduate of Chongjin's Kim Jong Suk Education College -- named for Kim Jong Il's mother -- when she was assigned in 1994 to teach in a mining village on the southern outskirts of the city.
		The equipment is in a state of disrepair,'' said one aid worker who had visited hospitals in Chongjin and elsewhere in the region and spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize his work.
	www.cantonrep.com /printable.php?ID=231308 (4474 words)

	Chongjin - Definition, explanation
		Chongjin is the only city in North Korea other than Pyongyang to operate the trams, which are all second-hand from Pyongyang.
		Chongjin's famous product is processed squid, and is North Korea's national famous product.
		Chongjin is one of the DPRK’s important steel and fibre industry centres.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ch/chongjin.php (436 words)

	Press Releases: DPR Korea, Action Against Hunger Withdraws from N. Korea, Situation Reports: DPR Korea, Action Against ...
		"Chongjin, the capital of the province of North Hamgyong, is an immense industrial town, covering several kilometres.
		Chongjin, the capital of the region, is a large industrial town that has gone adrift.
		This was despite a strong presence in the field: Action against Hunger had five expatriates based in Chongjin, the capital of the province, and has been the only organisation that has been able to maintain such a presence continuously.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/f64f8a57c500b81d852568ac005a634d (5025 words)

	Korea's Weather - Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The average January temperature in Chongjin, near the Chongjin Reservoir, is just -8°C (16°F).
		Considering these are only average temperatures based on the past 17 to 20 years, temperatures can, and have been much colder.
		The lowest temperature recorded at Chongjin in the past 20 years was a bone-chilling -21°C (-7°F).
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Kr/KrWX3.htm (223 words)

	Chongjin News
		Especially remarkable was the city of Chongjin, located in the North-East corner of what is now North Korea.
		And one of those is the 14-year-old ``Chongjin Shikdang (Chongjin Restaurant).ââ.
		This event took place in the northeastern port city of Chongjin and was attended by a large and remarkably well-organized crowd, dressed in their Sunday best.
	news.daylightonline.com /2005-03/Chongjin.html (460 words)

	Chongjin
		Chongjin is the administrative center of North Hamgyong Province.
		Main Station of Wonson-Rason Railway and Chongjin-Rason Railway, electric railway connect Rason and temporary capital Pyongyang.
		It has ChongjinUniversity of Technology, The Chongjin Mine University and Chongjin University of Education,altogether 3 higher education institutes and an aquatic product research centre.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chongjin.html (363 words)

	North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » Price data
		Lee added, as it became harvest season and authorities restrained Jangmadang operations, there was even an incident last May at Chongjin where a lot of children were hospitalized after eating sweets and medicines made from China, and instruction was made in regards to strengthening the regulation of Chinese goods.
		However, Chinese goods are in the majority and controlling Chinese commodities in North Korea is ‘shading the sun with the palm of your hand.’ Lee conveyed that to regulate the problem, police officers confiscate Chinese goods such as alcohol and cigarettes, and that oppression is worsening.
		According to defector of Chongjin, person ‘A’ laments “Recovery in factories is difficult as electric machines and electric lines are stolen and sold.
	www.nkeconwatch.com /2006/06/12/price-data (590 words)

	Detained Ship May Soon Leave N. Korea- Russian Foreign Ministry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The crew is waiting for Russian diplomats and the beginning of the investigation into the incident, scheduled to take place in the presence of the Russian consul general in the port of Chongjin.
		The Terney was returning to the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok from the South Korean port of Busan when it encountered a heavy storm in the Sea of Japan December 5.
		Yevgeny Valkovich, Russia's consul general in the port city of Chongjin about 200km (124 miles) from Kimchaek, said that he, as a foreigner, would not be allowed onto the Terney ship because it was in a restricted zone.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/12-19-05/DetainedShipSoonLeaveNKorea.htm (725 words)

	Some in North Korea Find Communist Rule Is a Death Sentence - July 6, 2005 - The New York Sun
		SEOUL, South Korea - For most of her life, Kim Hui Suk had spouted the sayings of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung and never for a moment harbored a doubt: Capitalists were the enemy.
		Watching her family slowly succumb to the famine - her mother-in-law, husband, and son died of starvation - Mrs.
		Just a decade ago, when people in Chongjin needed new trousers, they had to go to government-owned stores.
	www.nysun.com /article/16541 (607 words)

	News: DPR Korea: Explosion in Ryongchon County - Apr 2004, North Korea suspected of selling relief aid in market: ...
		The group, which supports people fleeing the Stalinist state, said it had obtained videotape showing such supplies being sold in a market in the port city of Chongjin on the east coast.
		Lee Young-Hwa, the group's leader, told Sankei Shimbun newspaper it was impossible for individual merchants to transport such a large amount of goods across the country.
		Chongjin is some 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Ryongchon.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-69MH8N?OpenDocument (381 words)

	Past news
		Chongjin, October 12 (KCNA) -- A reception was given at the Russian consulate general in Chongjin Friday evening on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and Russia.
		Present there were Arkadi Labrov, consul general of the Russian Federation in Chongjin, and staff members of the consulate general.
		He said that his party sincerely congratulated the Workers' Party of Korea on its shining successes made in the endeavours for the country's prosperity and development and national reunification under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.
	www.kcna.co.jp /item/2001/200110/news10/13.htm (963 words)

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