Nampo
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Nampo , formerly Chinnampo , city (1993 pop. 731,448), W North Korea, on Korea Bay (or West Korea Bay). It is the port city for Pyongyang and is also a leading metallurgical center. Other industries include shipbuilding, glassmaking, and electrode manufacturing.
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NAMPO, North Korea - A brass band blared martial music into a snowstorm and more than 1,000 Nampo residents shivered in neat military-style rows as North and ... the blustery snowstorm on a frozen patch of land outside Nampo, North Korea's main port about an hour's drive from the capital ...
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... ships about to enter the North's port of Nampo. On Sunday, the Omsk, a Russia-registered ... Korea, and arrived at the outer harbor of Nampo, North Korea, yesterday morning. Carrying ... Co., which runs the only regular Inchon-Nampo route, to Nampo, citing high costs. South ...
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N.Korea Denies Entrance of ROK Ship to Harbor.
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... ship Sona has been denied entrance to the Nampo port since Dec. 28. After waiting in the ... Hansung ships enter the North Korean port of Nampo, without giving any reasons. On Dec. 25, the Sona left the North's Nampo port without the cargo it was supposed ...
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PIFF Brief.
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... Pusan International Film Festival's (PIFF) open-air stage in Nampo-dong has been constantly crowded by movie fans eager to see ... personalities to leave their hand prints at the PIFF Plaza in the Nampo-dong theater area. This year's honorees are director Zhang Yimou ...
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Fiat first in SA biofuel line.(Motoring)
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... several days as it awaited loading at a port near the port of Nampo, on North Korea's west coast. The exact types of missile components ... intelligence officials said Mr. Bush was briefed on the missiles at Nampo during one of his recent daily intelligence briefings. The president ...
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Even the Birds Are Said to Be in Mourning
Chicago Sun-Times; 7/20/1994; 137 words;
... swallow flew into a school classroom in the western city of Nampo Wednesday last week and "wept for 10 minutes," then "prayed ... heir-apparent Kim Jong Il, the radio said. The Korea Central News Agency earlier reported that Mother Nature herself came close ...
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Swallows in mourning - official
The Independent - London; 7/20/1994; 130 words;
... said a swallow flew into a classroom in the western city of Nampo last week and "wept for 10 minutes", then "prayed for five minutes ... the radio said. Not to be outdone, the state-run Korea Central News Agency reported that Mother Nature herself came close to tears ...
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AUSTRALIA LINKS HEROIN TRADE TO NORTH KOREA
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... with the detention of a freighter in Australian national waters. The AFP alleged North Korea loaded the heroin at the port of Nampo and offloaded some of the cargo in Australia. The AFP said agents found blocks of heroin in vehicles on the mainland with characteristics ...
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Iran bolsters naval, EW power. (Middle East Report).(electronic warfare)(Brief Article)
Journal of Electronic Defense; 4/1/2002; Puttre, Michael; 140 words;
... converted into missile-armed fast-attack craft. The gunboats were loaded onto an Iranian freighter at the North Korean port of Nampo. The shipment is believed to be headed to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Analysts see Iran's naval and coastal defense acquisitions ...
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ELSEWHERE.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/2/1997; 95 words;
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