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	North Hamgyong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Hamgyŏng (Hamgyŏng-pukto) is a province of North Korea.
		The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Hamgyŏng Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea.
		The province is bordered by China on the north, South Hamgyong on the southwest, and Ryanggang on the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Hamgyong (148 words)

	Encyclopedia: North Hamgyong
		The Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in South Korea, the East Sea of Korea in North Korea, and the Japan Sea in China, is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bound by the Japanese islands of Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu and Sakhalin island to the...
		North Hwanghae (Hwanghae-pukto) is a province of North Korea.
		North Pyŏngan (Pyŏngan-pukto) is a province of North Korea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Hamgyong (824 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Action Against Hunger Withdraws from N. Korea
		The North Korean economy was founded, until the end of the 80’s, on privileged commercial relationships within the communist block, and especially with the USSR and China, allowing imports at very preferential rates, particularly soviet petrol and technology.
		North Hamgyong is one of the country’s most populous provinces with 2.2 million inhabitants.
		During over 230 visits in North Hamgyong nurseries carried out in 1998 and 1999 Action against Hunger's nutritionists were able to make comparisons between the number of children actually present in these institutions and the number of children declared or reported by the authorities.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/s/F64F8A57C500B81D852568AC005A634D (5003 words)

	The Politics of Famine in North Korea: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		The Chinese maize crop in provinces north of the border was quite poor because of exceedingly wet and overcast weather, with reductions in harvest of 70-90 percent (Korean-Chinese merchant and agronomist interviews, September 1998).
		North Korea is no exception to this pattern of behavior, though the population control system appears to have constrained some of these movements (unlike Africa where the population is more nomadic and national boundaries do not constrain movement).
		North Korean military incidents against Japan, the United States, and South Korea may be an effort by Kim Jong Il to focus the attention of his military, whose loyalty he doubts, on an external threat that he himself regularly provokes.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html (7304 words)

	Mining (from Korea, North) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		North Korea's magnesite deposits, the largest in the world, are centred on Tanch'on, in South Hamgyong province.
		The country is bordered by China and Russia to the north and by the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the south.
		The country is bordered by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west; to the southeast it is separated from the Japanese island of Tsushima by the Korea Strait.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-34930 (1003 words)

	No-dong - North Korean Special Weapons Facilities
		North Korean ballistic missiles are test fired from a facility on North Korea's eastern coast not far from the town of Nodong, and about 10 km from the town of Taepodong.
		While the MAB is oriented due North, the remainder of the complex is roughly oriented 35° West of North [with incidental variations of a few degrees off this axis].
		North Korean missile threat assessed By LOU MARANO United Press International February 28, 2000 -- John Pike, a policy analyst for the Federation of American Scientists, displayed a newly available satellite image of the No-dong launch facility near the Sea of Japan that revealed the primitive conditions there.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/dprk/facility/nodong.htm (2113 words)

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		In the North Korean case, the problem was exacerbated because most of the defectors, even the most senior, had only a partial picture of their own society -- as one would expect in a closed country.
		These North Koreans in the main came from North Hamgyong province, and the scientific work in question specifically stated that their findings could not be extrapolated to the whole country.
		Firstly, the North Koreans interviewed in China were not a representative sample of their home province; secondly North Hamgyong, which has an urbanised, non-agricultural population, was not representative of the country as a whole.
	www.japanfocus.org /104.html (3163 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| N Korea 'kills detainees' babies'
		Between 200,000 and 300,000 North Koreans are believed to have crossed into China in the 1990s at the height of the country's famine.
		The CHRNK says testimony of a former prisoner of a North Korean gulag from 1967-74 is very similar to contemporary accounts, and indicates that the mistreatment of prisoners has not changed much in the last 30 years.
		One former prisoner at a camp in North Hamgyong province said the highlights of his stay were walks outside, when prisoners could eat plants and grass.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3204509.stm (694 words)

	Free translation
		North Korea may suggest such proposals that can mainly help recover its economy in a short period of time.
		I think it is urgent to rehabilitate the railway network, because North Korean transportation system composes primarily of railways and then roads.
		North Hamgyong Province is the area that represents North Korea’s heavy industry.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprk/davies_sisa1.html (1361 words)

	North Korea tests new missile engine: report
		North Korea, denounced by the United States as a leading global proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, tested an engine for a ballistic missile last month, a South Korean newspaper reported Thursday.
		Engine testing was conducted successfully in early May at North Korea's Musudan missile complex in North Hamgyong province, the JoongAng newspaper said, citing diplomatic sources.
		North Korea has already deployed short-range Scud missile and Rodongs with a range of 1,300 kilometers, while actively developing longer-range missiles.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040610050334.ipox11h8.html (479 words)

	No-Dong B - North Korea
		The North was thought to have acquired the technology sometime between 1992 and 1998.
		The construction of the two facilities was taken to indicate that North Korea was sufficiently confident of the performance of the new missile to begin preparations to deploy it.
		The US Government is evidently concerned that the North Koreans may intend to launch this missile from small commercial vessels that have approached the coastlines of the United States.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/dprk/nd-b.htm (1520 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Spy's escape from North Korean 'hell'
		Kenki Aoyama spent four decades in North Korea and lived to tell the tale of a place he now calls hell.
		Now aged 63, Mr Aoyama is one of the lucky few that survived successive purges in the 1960s and '70s and a famine in the 1990s.
		Pulled by the promise of paradise, Mr Aoyama set sail for North Korea in 1960 at the age of 21.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2631839.stm (790 words)

	CNS - North Korea: A Second Taep’o-dong Test?
		Indeed, the North Korean Central News Agency challenged the Western characterization of the Taep’o-dong as a ballistic missile in the aftermath of the August 1998 test.
		North Korea rejected the offer on the ground that the United States was already required under the 1994 Agreed Framework to relax economic sanctions.
		North Korea has responded to pressure from South Korea, Japan, and the United States by arguing that it is primarily interested in civilian space exploration.
	cns.miis.edu /research/korea/taep2.htm (3537 words)

	An Analysis of the North Korean Missile Launch of 31August 1998
		North Korea claimed the third stage burned for 27 seconds and placed a satellite in an orbit with a perogee of 218.82 km, an apogee of 6978.2 km, and a period of 165 minutes and 6 seconds.
		North Korea may have begun an effort to develop small solid-fuel rocket motors several years ago and the engine used may have been built in North Korea.
		North Korea is believed to have transferred Nodong technology to Pakistan for its Ghauri missile test earlier this year, and it is conceivable that it could have received some technology in return.
	www.inesap.org /bulletin16/bul16art10.htm (2396 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		North Korea, however, has by no means embraced all aid, and appears to prefer televisions, diesel oil and cement to medical supplies.
		North Korean agriculture is highly dependent on both fertilizers and irrigation.
		If North Korea were to accept foreign offers of reconstruction assistance, whether from its traditional if disenchanted sponsors, China and Russia, or from South Korea and the UN, then it might well stand a good chance of picking up the pieces from the wreckage of last Thursday.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FD30Dg01.html (1834 words)

	Taep'o-dong 2 (TD-2) - North Korea
		North Korea conducted a possible TD-2 engine test in late June 2001 [the fact of the test reliably reported, although it is less certain whether the test involved a TD-1 or TD-2].
		North Korea tested a new engine for the long-range missile system several times during 2001 at the missile testing site in Musudan-ri, Hwadae-gun, North Hamgyong Province.
		North Korea has probably had considerable troubles with adapting the structurally heavy No-dong second stage to their new Taep'o-dong-2 first stage.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/dprk/td-2.htm (1643 words)

	Facts About North Korea
		North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.
		In December 2002, North Korea repudiated a 1994 agreement that shut down its nuclear reactors and expelled UN monitors, further raising fears it would produce nuclear weapons.
		North Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions.
	worldfacts.us /Korea-North.htm (974 words)

	NK Press Services_Feb_8_2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Of the North's total of 211 cities (or special city districts) and counties, 168 are now accessible to the WFP, according to figures tabulated at the end of last year.
		Also off-limit are Musudan-ri, Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province, from which a Daepodong missile was fired in 1998, and Kim Hyong-jik County, Yanggang Province, in which a large-scale missile base was learned to have been completed in the 1990s.
		Rumors abound in Myongchon County, North Hamgyong Province, that the county is inaccessible to WFP food relief, because its chief party secretary reported to Kim Jong Il during the latter's guidance tour, "We have no food shortage," according to a native Jong Hyon-chol, who fled to the South in 2000.
	www.hrwf.net /html/nk_press_services_feb_8_2002.html (2197 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		It has been learned that North Korea is building a 400 km wooden fence from Shinuiju, North Pyongan Province to Onsong, North Hamgyong Province in order to put a stop to the recent exodus of defectors from the country.
		The officer added, "The North Korea-China border is more that 1,000 li (about 400 km) long, and the reality is that it's impossible to block all of it.
		If work on the wooden fence and traps are completed, the North Korea-China border would be completely sealed off and the number of defectors escaping from the North would likely diminish markedly.
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200405/200405260014.html (295 words)

	North Korea set to test new missile engines: report
		North Korea has restored facilities for missile engine testing destroyed by an explosion in December 2002, the JoongAng newspaper said, citing South Korean diplomatic and defense sources.
		North Korea's resumption of missile development aims to increase its negotiating leverage with the United States, he said.
		"North Korea has been a problem in terms of proliferation...We don't think it's right for North Korea to become a source of proliferation and, therefore, a danger to the rest of the world," he said at a press briefing Wednesday.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040506073201.0guod958.html (537 words)

	Settlement patterns (from Korea, North) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Of the eight Korean provinces of the Choson (Yi) dynasty (1392–1910), North Korea contains the three provinces of P'yongan, Hwanghae, and Hamgyong and the northern parts of Kangwon and Kyonggi provinces.
		North Korea may also be divided into the two larger traditional regions: Kwanso to the west and Kwanbuk to the east, roughly divided by the Nangnim Mountains.
		The richly varied economy of North Carolina is based upon its abundance of hydroelectric power, a generally pleasant climate that encourages outdoor sports, and a wide variety of soils.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-34924?tocId=34924 (1161 words)

	North Korea Space Programs
		North Korea launched the first medium-range Taepo Dong 1 ballistic missile from the northeastern part of North Korea shortly after noon on 31 August 1998.
		North Korea may have been intent on demonstrating a "show of force" in advance of the 50th anniversary of its founding on September 9 and the expected installation of Kim Jong-Il as "paramount leader" of the secretive Stalinist state.
		According to the report, the rocket was launched in the direction of 86 degrees at a launching station in Musudan-ri, Hwadae county, North Hamgyong Province at 12:07 August 31, Juche 87 (1998) and correctly put the satellite into orbit at 12 hours 11 minutes 53 seconds in four minutes 53 seconds.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/dprk (1305 words)

	CNS - The 31 August 1998 North Korean Satellite Launch: Factsheet
		Previously, North Korea was only known to have tested the No-dong (1,000-1,300km-range), a modified version of the Scud missile.
		The use of three stages means the North Koreans have progressed toward developing a multi-stage missile with a potential range between 3,800 to 5,900km, approaching intercontinental ballistic missile range.
		According to the Korean Central News Agency, "the rocket was launched at 12:07 on 31 August 1998 at a launching station in Musudan-ri, Hwadae county, North Hamgyong province.
	cns.miis.edu /research/korea/factsht.htm (1072 words)

	Asia Times: PYONGYANG WATCH: The riot act?
		The North Korean police state for decades maintained such tight control that it was all but impossible for discontented people to move around and communicate with one another enough to organize and mount effective protests.
		One North Korean military officer who had defected to the South told me a few years ago that if there were ever to be a major anti-government movement it would most likely arise in mining country.
		The same source said the North Korean military had recently taken control of the railways away from the cabinet "in order to watch the moves of residents".
	www.atimes.com /koreas/AK03Dg01.html (1028 words)

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