Citations:Hamhung

English citations of Hamhung

• 1956 [1950 December 3], Harry S. Truman, quoting Douglas MacArthur, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope‎^[1], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 374:

  The X Corps is being withdrawn into the Hamhung area as rapidly as possible. The situation with the Eighth Army becomes increasingly critical General Walker reports, and I agree with his estimate, that he cannot hold the Pyongyang area and under enemy pressure, when exerted, will unquestionably be forced to withdraw to the Seoul area.

• 2008, Robert Willoughby, “East Coast to Tanchon”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:

  Hamhung is North Korea’s second city. The birthplace of the founder of Korea’s Ri dynasty and the site of a famous battle during the Korean War, Hamhung has since developed into a spacious industrial city of around 750,000 inhabitants.

• 2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom‎^[3] (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:

  It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study.

• 2022 January 26, “North Korea fires two missiles as U.S. condemns flurry of tests”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 28 January 2022, China‎^[5]:

  South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of what it presumed were two ballistic missiles at about 8 a.m. (2300 GMT) from near Hamhung, on the east coast of North Korea.