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	donga.com [english donga]
		Hoeryong is the hometown of Kim Jong Suk, the mother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and it also has several places that played a revolutionary role in North Korean history.
		Hoeryong has acted as the chief passageway for North Korean defectors, which has caused the North Korean government to designate the area for close inspection.
		The city of Hoeryong has a population of approximately 150,000 people, and it is an area that has brought forth many retired and present leaders.
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2007020617018 (315 words)

	UNICEF DPRK - Real lives - Water, environment and sanitation
		Kim Yong Suk, mother of two in Hoeryong City, North Hamgyong province, explains the impact of the unavailability of in adequate water supply has had on her family.
		Hoeryong City was selected as one of the additional piloting locations to receive a gravity-flow water supply system and improved sanitation facilities.
		In March the Government began to mobilize people from Hoeryong City to dig the trench for the water to flow down from the mountain spring to the city.
	www.unicef.org /dprk/reallives_224.html (968 words)

	donga.com [english donga]
		The Asahi Shimbun reported on November 9 that the North Korean residents of Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province were protesting the closure of Nammun market to the authorities, quoting multiple sources.
		The news reported that one woman was killed in a clash between the local government and the residents in September, and in early November tens of citizens rushed to the market management authorities where eighteen were apprehended on the spot.
		The news was relatively quickly reported due to Hoeryong’s location near the border, but it was reported that similar incidents have occurred in other areas as well.
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2006113017138 (358 words)

	Three Prides of Hoeryong
		White apricot began to be cultivated in the Obong area of Hoeryong in the early period of Ri Dynasty.
		Kim Jong Suk, who lived in Hoeryong for only five years, missed white apricot so much and, with the hope that the tree would be in full bloom throughout the country, devotedly fought to bring up the day.
		Hoeryong earthenware of different blue-grey colors and unique shapes with kaolin as the main material are also renowned in view of both the features of folk handicraft and virtual utility.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/2004/12/dprk-041227-kcna02.htm (331 words)

	Bulletin - Waiting on the Dear Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fortunately for Hoeryong, and the residents of other dusty towns that dot the Sino-Korean border, Chinese traders are willing to come calling.
		Several weeks after the plan was unveiled, Yang Bin – the Dutch-Chinese businessman appointed to head the economic region – was jailed in China on tax-evasion charges and North Korea shelved the project indefinitely.
		“Hoeryong will be one of the first places to open up to China and the rest of the world.” But when that day comes is up to Pyongyang, not the people of this border town.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/6f41c1d13a3b1f07ca256c2700808185/732e81fa99cc5767ca256cad001180bd?OpenDocument (633 words)

	"Naenara"-KOREA:Educator Couple in Hoeryong
		Among the participants in the national meeting of educational workers held at the People’s Palace of Culture in the capital city of Pyongyang in October Juche 93 (2004), there were a couple delegates who drew the attention of people.
		Hoeryong is situated on the bank of the Tuman River in the northern extremity of Korea.
		It was their honor and pride to work as teachers in the historic place Hoeryong.
	www.kcckp.net /en/periodic/korea/index.php?contents+610+2005-01+34+9 (480 words)

	NK Missions - The World Network for North Korea Missions
		Word that the scenes of the public execution was filmed on the sly and went to the outside of the North.
		Hoeryong is one of major defect routes out of the country.
		Defector LeeMyoungChul (pseudonym), who is from Hoeryong, said "political prisoners in the Hoeryong camp appear to be transferred to the Yoduk camp".
	www.nkmissions.com /forum/threads.php?id=1820_0_15_320_C (478 words)

	Past news
		Hoeryong, December 20 (kcna) -- Functions took place in Korea to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
		An "evening of literature" was held by students from throughout the country in front of her statue in Hoeryong on December 20.
		Hoeryong, December 20 (KCNA) -- A joint meeting of the Korean Children's Union organisations was held in front of the statue of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk in Hoeryong City, north Hamgyong Province, on Dec. 20 to commemorate her 80th birth anniversary.
	www.kcna.co.jp /item/1997/9712/news12/21.htm (1198 words)

	History and Historiography in North Korea (8) - История и историография в Северной ...
		White apricot began to be cultivated in the Obong area of Hoeryong in the early period of Ri Dynasty.
		Kim Jong Suk, who lived in Hoeryong for only five years, missed white apricot so much and, with the hope that the tree would be in full bloom throughout the country, devotedly fought to bring up the day.
		Hoeryong earthenware of different blue-grey colors and unique shapes with kaolin as the main material are also renowned in view of both the features of folk handicraft and virtual utility.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/history_8.htm (10858 words)

	00001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Her grandparents had come to Hoeryong to eke out a scant livelihood through tenant farming, living in a grass hut at a village.
		Though she returned to the homeland after national liberation, twenty-odd years after she left her native home, she delayed to call at her native house to assist the great President in his busy work for construction of the country.
		Hoeryong, which had been called a barren land under the Japanese colonial rule, has ecome a modern communist city famous throughout the world under the meticulous guidance of great President Kim Il Sung and respected General Kim Jong Il.
	ndfsk.dyndns.org /kuguk8/greatmen/06.html (1334 words)

	N. Korea holds executions to discourage defectors - 03/19/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The grainy footage is believed to show firing squads executing alleged human traffickers in front of large crowds in Hoeryong, a North Korean border town that has been a major transit point for tens of thousands of people escaping their impoverished homeland.
		Another execution was apparently held the following day in the outskirts of Hoeryong in front of a train station decorated with a large portrait of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung.
		Hoeryong is not only a hub for defectors but also for smuggling of goods that are banned in North Korea, such as South Korean and American videos and DVDs, pornography and Chinese-made mobile telephones.
	www.detnews.com /2005/nation/0503/20/world-121871.htm (981 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / South Korean Lawmakers See North 'Execution' Tapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Activists say the tapes were made with a hidden camera and show thousands gathering at two separate events to watch public executions in and near Hoeryong, south of North Korea's border with China.
		In the first video, which activists said was taped on March 1, a propaganda van travels near a public market in Hoeryong as people in the crowd speak in North Korean accents about getting a good view.
		There is also a second video activists say was taken on the following day in the same general area that shows an execution of one other person in the same manner.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/25/south_korean_lawmakers_see_north_execution_tapes (622 words)

	ようこそジン・ネット -JINNET- へ
		Two of the 11 received the death penalty, two got life sentences, and the remaining 7 were given terms ranging from 10 to 15 years at hard labor.
		According to some North Korean defectors who lived in Hoeryong city, those executions were by shooting or by hanging.
		Hoeryong lies in the border area and is located on a major escape route into China.
	www.jin-net.co.jp /houdou4.htm (1449 words)

	Korea (DPRK) - OCHA: 12-Mar-04
		Significant achievements in the project are: - Rehabilitation of surgical block of Hoeryong Maternity Hospital Gynaecology Department.
		Two doctors from Hoeryong Maternity Hospital received medical training on surgery methods, the utilisation of the Electro surgery unit, and anaesthetic methods with the utilisation of an anaesthetic machine.
		In the same period the two doctors of Hoeryong Maternity Hospital have assisted the Maternal and Neonatal Intensive Care training course held in Pyongyang Maternity Hospital by Prof.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/04a/ixl38.html (5456 words)

	U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
		Former Prisoner #12 reported that at Hoeryong kyo-hwa-so in the early to middle 1990s, minor rule-breakers were beaten by their cellmates on the orders of the guards, and major rule-breakers were placed in a 1.5-meter-square (16.5-feet-square) punishment cell for a week or more.
		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.
		Former Detainee #25 reported that one woman, a former schoolteacher who had been caught in Mongolia and repatriated to China and North Korea, was beaten nearly to death at the Onsong In-min-bo-an-seong detention center in November 1999, and then taken away either to die or, if she recovered, for transfer to Kyo-hwa-so No. 22.
	www.hrnk.org /hiddengulag/part3.html (1340 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Moves into Gaza barred by army
		In a crackdown on defections and smuggling to China, the North Korean regime has conducted public executions of at least three human traffickers and possibly dozens more, according to human-rights advocates who have recently obtained a videotape.
		The grainy footage is believed to show firing squads performing executions in front of large crowds in Hoeryong, a North Korean border town that has been a major transit point for tens of thousands of people escaping their impoverished homeland.
		Many brokers work in Hoeryong helping defectors cross the Tumen River into China and arranging illegal marriages for North Korean women with Chinese men.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002212769_wdig19.html (577 words)

	Noord Korea Kim Jong Suk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Comrade Kim Jong Suk was born on December 24, Juche 6 (1917) in to a patriotic family on Osan Hill in Hoeryong City, North Hamgyong Province.
		She set out on the road of struggle in her teens and participated in the anti-Japanese revolutionary war organized and led by the great leader Comrade Kim II Sung.
		In the morning of December 24 at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong in Pyongyang, a ceremony of paying homage to a great communist revolutionary fighter Comrade Kim Jong Suk and pledging loyalty was performed solemnly by the officers and men of three services of the Korean People's Army.
	www.commietravel.nl /korea/heroes/kimjongsuk/kimjongsuk001.htm (393 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		Being a "completely restricted area" from which inmates, once incarcerated, can never leave even after death, the Hoeryong Concentration Camp is perceived as the most notorious prison for political criminals in the country.
		Encompassing Jungbong-ni, Kulsan-ni, Hyaengyong-ni, Naksaeng-ni, Saul-ri and Namsok-ni districts of Hoeryong City, the population of the Hoeryong Concentration Camp jumped from about 30,000 to around 50,000 in 1992 when it absorbed some inmates from the Concentration Camps.
		Circling the outskirts of the camp are 2.2-meter-high electrified wire fences, and deep pitfalls are dug along passages escapees are expected to take with bamboo spears planted in them.
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200212/200212050034.html (573 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| First signs of protest in world's top secret state
		Still frames captured from the clip and a partial transcript were made available by the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, a group of defectors and refugees who have settled in the South.
		According to another opposition group in South Korea, the footage was taken in the north-eastern border city of Hoeryong and was passed to activists in China.
		The Citizens' Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, based in Seoul, said the act of dissent against the paranoid leadership of the totalitarian state and its broadcast abroad suggested the first signs of an attempt to forge a domestic movement against Kim.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/18/wkor18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/18/ixportal.html (378 words)

	Secret N. Korean Footage Suggests Nascent Dissent
		Do said Japanese television paid his organization $15,000 for the video and that it tried to pass on all of the money to Park's group, but that after money brokers took their cut, only $3,000 made it into North Korea.
		A Japanese broadcaster, Asahi Television, which also interviewed Park, did a sound analysis and concluded that he was the man whose voice is heard in the footage, program director Hiromichi Shizume said.
		Numerous defectors who have seen the footage say that several scenes, particularly the one at the bridge, were clearly shot in Hoeryong.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/may2005/240505secretfootage.htm (1670 words)

	History and Historiography in North Korea (5)
		Her statues were erected in Hoeryong city in Juche 58 (1969) and in Kim Jong Suk county in Juche 63 (1974).
		Her bust is standing in the highest part of the revolutionary martyrs' cemetery which was built on Mt. Taesong in Pyongyang in Juche 64 (1975).
		Born in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, he was well known in surrounding areas for his outstanding poetic talent from his childhood.
	fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/history_5.htm (10386 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to this report (from a defecting NK soldier, via DailyNK), 681 North Korean soldiers in Hoeryong received dishonorable discharges for taking bribes from smugglers and illegal border-crossers.
		One could assume that their next stop will be a very bad place.
		Hoeryong was also the location for the North Korean dissenters' video from last week.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6271128&postID=110679091410485738 (159 words)

	North Korea Public Execution Video Released
		``On this trial at Hoeryong, North Hamkyong Province, the firing squad executed two men identified to be Choi Jae-kon and Park Myong-kil,'' Han said.
		Hoeryong is a northeastern city near the border with China.
		The execution was conducted on March 1 after a summary trial of 11 suspects who were indicted for aiding defectors and human trafficking, Han said.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/nk_public_execution_video_released.htm (306 words)

	Secret N. Korean Footage Suggests Nascent Dissent
		Do said Japanese television paid his organization $15,000 for the video and that it tried to pass on all of the money to Park's group, but that after money brokers took their cut, only $3,000 made it into North Korea.
		A Japanese broadcaster, Asahi Television, which also interviewed Park, did a sound analysis and concluded that he was the man whose voice is heard in the footage, program director Hiromichi Shizume said.
		Numerous defectors who have seen the footage say that several scenes, particularly the one at the bridge, were clearly shot in Hoeryong.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/nk_secret_footage_suggests_dissent.htm (1631 words)

	Korea - OCHA: 12-Mar-04
		Significant achievements in the project are: Rehabilitation of surgical block of Hoeryong Maternity Hospital Gynaecology Department.
		Supply and instalment of the surgical and diagnostic equipment in Hoeryong Hospital.The instalment of the equipment, as well as the subsequent technical training course, were undertaken by two Italian expatriates; one Biomedical Engineer and a Medical Equipment technician.
		Medical training on using the newly installed equipment was held in Pyongyang from 23 to 27 February 2004.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/04a/ixl35.html (5452 words)

	Tongil Korea - Footprints Left Behind in Early Days of Nation Building
		Komusan was lying on the way to Hoeryong, her own hometown.
		When they reached the fork in the road leading to the Komusan Cement Factory, accompanying officials suggested going to Hoeryong first and dropping in at the cement factory on the way back.
		Hoeryong was her hometown which she had longed for and called softly from her heart of hearts even in her dreams in the years of the bloody anti-Japanese war.
	www.tongilkorea.net /index.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=347 (917 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Going into Business
		But the city of Hoeryong, located beside the Tumen River on the border with China in the northeast of the country, has just such a venue, and it is helping its inhabitants improve their lives.
		Life under the country's dictator Kim Jong Il remains brutal for Hoeryong's estimated 100,000 residents, but at least they no longer need to depend completely upon the state and foreign donations for food and a few simple pleasures.
		Today, according to interviews with more than a dozen smugglers, traders and migrant workers who routinely slip between China and North Korea, and with many refugees from the North now in South Korea, the market teems with shoppers' inspecting sacks of rice and corn, boxes of apples, bananas and tangerines.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501050221/nk_inside.html (747 words)

	pyongyang_watch_20
		But the city of Hoeryong, located beside the Tumen River on the border with China in the northeast of the country, has just such a venue, and it is helping its inhabitants improve their lives.
		Park the trader, is a woman in her late 30s who started selling cigarettes and medicinal herbs in the mid-1990s to supplement her meager government handouts.
		Most of the men in Hoeryong are worse off, forced to show up for work at factories that are barely operating.
	members.fortunecity.com /leonid7/pyongyang_watch_20.htm (15576 words)

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