Yanggang

See also: yánggāng

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 양강도(兩江道) (Yanggangdo).

Proper noun

Yanggang

1. Synonym of Ryanggang
   • 1990, North Korea News‎^[1], numbers 508-559, →OCLC, pages 3, 6:

     According to the north Korean Central Broadcasting Station on August 15, the Central People's Committee (north Korea's highest government body) issued on August 12 two administrative decrees, one to name Pungsan County of Yanggang Province as Kimhyonggwon County and Pungsan District Kimhyonggwon District, and the other to name Pabal Senior High School in Pungsan County Kimhyonggwon Senior High School, in order to preserve the land associated with […]
     and Pungsan County in Yanggang Province Kimhyonggwon District and Kimhyonggwon County. Kim Hyong-gwon is President Kim Il-sung's deceased uncle. The committee also issues a decree naming Pabal Senior High School of Kimhyonggwon Senior High School.

   • 1999, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific‎^[2], number 3575-3587, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:

     […] in Hwangsuwon-ri of Kimhyonggwon County of Yanggang Province, an area situated north of the Pujollyong mountain range.

   • 2002 December 3, Andrew Ward, “US accuses N Korea of links to narcotics trade”, in The New York Times‎^[3], sourced from Seoul, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2024, International:

     In August, a former high-ranking North Korean intelligence agent who defected to Japan said that 3,000 hectares was set aside for poppy cultivation in the north-eastern province of Yanggang in 1992.

   • 2004 September, Bradley K. Martin, “Yura”, in Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty‎^[4], 1st edition, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:

     During a scorching lowland heat wave the following August, the Kims prudently chose to focus their guidance on remote Pungsan County, in the high, cool mountains of Yanggang Province.

   • 2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on 20 September 2018‎^[6]:

     “[China’s] Changbai county [in Jilin province] and [North Korea’s] Hyesan [city in Yanggang province] are so tense that one barely sees any cars or people around,” said the source, who also asked to remain unnamed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yanggang.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanggang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 1