Chŏngjin (Chosŏn'gŭl:청진시;MR:Ch'ŏngjin-si[tɕʰʌŋdʑin ɕʰi]) is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province and the country's third largest city. It is sometimes called the City of Iron.
History
Chongjin was a small fishing village prior to the Japanese annexation of Korea; its date of establishment is unknown. The Chinese characters for its name mean 'clear river crossing'.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Japanese forces landed at Chongjin, and established a supply base due to its proximity to the front lines in Manchuria. The Japanese remained after the end of the war, and in 1908, declared the city an open trading port both for transport of Korean resources and as a stopping point for resources from China. The city was known during this period as “Seishin”, after the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters for its name. The Imperial Japanese Army’s 19th Division was headquartered in Ranam from 1918, where the Japanese built a new planned city based on a rectangular street grid. In the 1930, Nippon Steel built a large steel mill, the Seishin Iron and Steel Works, in the town. Ranam was annexed to Chongjin in 1940, which was elevated to city status. The city was overrun after a brief resistance by the Soviet Union on August 13, 1945, only a couple of days before the end of World War II.
Under the rule of North Korea, Chongjin remained an important military and industrial center. It was directly administered by the central government from 1960-1967 and from 1977-1988.
Chongjin | North Korea's City of Iron | DPRK Cities
Chongjin, North Hamgyong is the largest industrial hub in the DPRK, the provincial capital and third most populous city in the country. Despite all of this, it's rarely visited by foreigners. However, its history is incredibly interesting - from Japanese Imperial-era fishing village to major city in under 100 years.
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published: 27 Nov 2021
Inside footage from Chongjin, North Korea #3
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published: 01 Aug 2017
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Chongjin is a major port city on the DPRK's northeastern seaboard, as well as a hub for heavy industry stretching back over a century.
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published: 03 Jan 2025
Inside footage from Chongjin, North Korea #4
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published: 25 Oct 2017
Amazing North Korean Kindergarten Performance In Chongjin
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Fantastic performance by young North Korean kindergarten students in Chongjin city, in the north east of North Korea.
published: 02 Sep 2017
Kindergarten teachers sing in Chongjin, North Korea
Performance from Chongjin Kindergarten Teachers in North Korea
published: 22 May 2015
Inside footage from North Korean markets #2
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published: 12 Jun 2017
North Korea Scenes / KBS뉴스(News)
[Anchor Lead]
KBS has exclusively obtained recent footage that filmed the Hamgyongbukdo Province region in North Korea. The video shows that among the many slogan placards seen on the streets, many concerned the economy rather than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while most nuclear-related slogans had nearly disappeared.
[Pkg]
This rural village in North Korea's Hamgyongbukdo Province faces the Chinese border city of Tumen. We see North Koreans busily engaged in fall harvest work. An old truck perilously runs through the rice paddy filled with straw stacks and even carries people on the top. A bus of Chinese tourists traveled through country roads and finally arrives in a big city. Chongjin is the third largest city in North Korea after Pyongyang and Hamhung. Many slogans are spotted calli...
published: 31 Oct 2018
Unprecedented Trip to North Korea’s “City of Iron”
Six times in six years FTV applied to visit North Korea, succeeding on five occasions. Plans to visit four administrative districts made the paperwork on this latest trip particularly daunting, but persistence paid off, as FTV became the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, a northeast provincial capital known as the “City of Iron.” Travel documents are essential to secure passage across the border of a province, directly administered city or special city in North Korea. On bidding farewell to Rason, we head south for Chongjin, the capital of North Hamgyong Province and the country’s third largest city.After filling out forms and submitting documentation at the border, our Rason travel agents hand us over to travel agents from Chongjin.“Goodbye.”“Can we go?”“Yes.”For two and half...
published: 29 May 2015
Landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
This is a simulation of landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea. I hope you enjoy the video.
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Chongjin, North Hamgyong is the largest industrial hub in the DPRK, the provincial capital and third most populous city in the country. Despite all of this, it'...
Chongjin, North Hamgyong is the largest industrial hub in the DPRK, the provincial capital and third most populous city in the country. Despite all of this, it's rarely visited by foreigners. However, its history is incredibly interesting - from Japanese Imperial-era fishing village to major city in under 100 years.
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Chongjin, North Hamgyong is the largest industrial hub in the DPRK, the provincial capital and third most populous city in the country. Despite all of this, it's rarely visited by foreigners. However, its history is incredibly interesting - from Japanese Imperial-era fishing village to major city in under 100 years.
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Chongjin is a major port city on the DPRK's northeastern seaboard, as well as a hub for heavy industry stretching back over a century.
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Chongjin is a major port city on the DPRK's northeastern seaboard, as well as a hub for heavy industry stretching back over a century.
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Chongjin is a major port city on the DPRK's northeastern seaboard, as well as a hub for heavy industry stretching back over a century.
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Read up about my travels to Chongjin city and North Korea on:
http://www.travellingtheunknown.com/?p=174
Fantastic performance by young North Korean kindergart...
Read up about my travels to Chongjin city and North Korea on:
http://www.travellingtheunknown.com/?p=174
Fantastic performance by young North Korean kindergarten students in Chongjin city, in the north east of North Korea.
Read up about my travels to Chongjin city and North Korea on:
http://www.travellingtheunknown.com/?p=174
Fantastic performance by young North Korean kindergarten students in Chongjin city, in the north east of North Korea.
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[Anchor Lead]
KBS has exclusively obtained recent footage that filmed the Hamgyongbukdo Province region in North Korea. The video shows that among the many slog...
[Anchor Lead]
KBS has exclusively obtained recent footage that filmed the Hamgyongbukdo Province region in North Korea. The video shows that among the many slogan placards seen on the streets, many concerned the economy rather than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while most nuclear-related slogans had nearly disappeared.
[Pkg]
This rural village in North Korea's Hamgyongbukdo Province faces the Chinese border city of Tumen. We see North Koreans busily engaged in fall harvest work. An old truck perilously runs through the rice paddy filled with straw stacks and even carries people on the top. A bus of Chinese tourists traveled through country roads and finally arrives in a big city. Chongjin is the third largest city in North Korea after Pyongyang and Hamhung. Many slogans are spotted calling for advancing the economy to safeguard the ruling party. In all the propaganda banners filmed in this area, KBS has found the word 'economy' appears 47 times in total, much more than the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un which appears 29 times. Nuclear terminology was found just once in a rural town on the outskirts of Chongjin. Musan Mine in North Korea is the largest iron ore mine in Asia which the North's founder Kim Il-sung affectionately called the country's treasure. With exports blocked due to global sanctions, piles of iron ore concentrates are found just lying in the open air. Local sources say there's not enough fuel to run the blast furnace because imports are blocked and this is affecting the operation of steel mills. Pyongyang is declaring utmost efforts toward building the economy but the reality is harsh amid global sanctions and isolation from the international community.
[Soundbite] Prof. An Mun-seok(Chonbuk Nat'l University) : "The North Koreans also know that a small country possessing nukes will face economic, diplomatic isolation and difficulties. Kim Jong-un will surely have known this too."
Experts say it remains to be seen whether noticeably scan
[Anchor Lead]
KBS has exclusively obtained recent footage that filmed the Hamgyongbukdo Province region in North Korea. The video shows that among the many slogan placards seen on the streets, many concerned the economy rather than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while most nuclear-related slogans had nearly disappeared.
[Pkg]
This rural village in North Korea's Hamgyongbukdo Province faces the Chinese border city of Tumen. We see North Koreans busily engaged in fall harvest work. An old truck perilously runs through the rice paddy filled with straw stacks and even carries people on the top. A bus of Chinese tourists traveled through country roads and finally arrives in a big city. Chongjin is the third largest city in North Korea after Pyongyang and Hamhung. Many slogans are spotted calling for advancing the economy to safeguard the ruling party. In all the propaganda banners filmed in this area, KBS has found the word 'economy' appears 47 times in total, much more than the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un which appears 29 times. Nuclear terminology was found just once in a rural town on the outskirts of Chongjin. Musan Mine in North Korea is the largest iron ore mine in Asia which the North's founder Kim Il-sung affectionately called the country's treasure. With exports blocked due to global sanctions, piles of iron ore concentrates are found just lying in the open air. Local sources say there's not enough fuel to run the blast furnace because imports are blocked and this is affecting the operation of steel mills. Pyongyang is declaring utmost efforts toward building the economy but the reality is harsh amid global sanctions and isolation from the international community.
[Soundbite] Prof. An Mun-seok(Chonbuk Nat'l University) : "The North Koreans also know that a small country possessing nukes will face economic, diplomatic isolation and difficulties. Kim Jong-un will surely have known this too."
Experts say it remains to be seen whether noticeably scan
Six times in six years FTV applied to visit North Korea, succeeding on five occasions. Plans to visit four administrative districts made the paperwork on this l...
Six times in six years FTV applied to visit North Korea, succeeding on five occasions. Plans to visit four administrative districts made the paperwork on this latest trip particularly daunting, but persistence paid off, as FTV became the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, a northeast provincial capital known as the “City of Iron.” Travel documents are essential to secure passage across the border of a province, directly administered city or special city in North Korea. On bidding farewell to Rason, we head south for Chongjin, the capital of North Hamgyong Province and the country’s third largest city.After filling out forms and submitting documentation at the border, our Rason travel agents hand us over to travel agents from Chongjin.“Goodbye.”“Can we go?”“Yes.”For two and half hours we travel over bumpy mountain roads and past arid fields that should have been sowed at the beginning of May.An abrupt change from pastoral to urban setting is apparent upon entry into Chongjin. Like Rason there is a port, but the similarities end there. Chongjin is an industrial city of 600,000 that trades the open, international feeling of its busy neighbor to the north for rows of factory chimneys. Tens of thousands of workers, who produce a quarter of the nation’s steel output, primarily rely on bicycles for transit, though some use city buses and trolley buses. Second to Pyongyang in terms of trolleys, Chongjin is the only city on the east coast that has these vehicles.In the daytime, the industrial vehicles that ply the streets attract the attention of blue-clad traffic officers.“Sir, you cannot film this.”As the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, we must deal with weary handlers. They issue a stream of prohibitions: do not film pedestrians, do not film soldiers, do not film while the vehicle is moving. But they are happy to promote the city’s digital library. Completed in 2013, this is a place where students and members of the general public study typing and computer animation or go on the domestic internet.Hahn Kyung HeeDeputy Head Librarian, Chongjin LibraryWe’re open from 9 am to 6 pm and closed on Wednesdays since this is a day of rest for workers.Suspicions that North Korea harbors state-sponsored hackers made us curious about the capabilities of this young network manager.Hong Jung ChulNetwork Manager, Chongjin LibraryI work from 7 am to 7 pm. (Are there problems that you cannot solve?) If I have questions, I search the internet for answers.It’s the beginning of May and North Korea remains mired in a drought. Households accustomed to electricity restrictions have solar panels installed on their balconies. We must deal with water and power cuts at our hotel.Park Hyun KyungChongjin GuideThere was no power this morning. (There was no water yesterday). When there’s a blackout, use this bucket to flush the toilet.North Koreans keep water reserves. Without street lights, each evening the city is plunged into a darkness broken only by headlights and small lamps scattered among a few households. Nighttime temperatures drop to just 4 degrees Celsius, but the hotel doesn’t provide warm water for bathing.Despite these problems, Chongjin does feature a clean, undeveloped coastline. Five minutes away a revolutionary site abuts a white sandy beach and coastal homes in a picturesque setting.The city’s greatest asset is its ice-free port. In 2012, China leased the port’s third and fourth piers to serve as a transport hub for goods flowing between China, South Korea, Russia and Japan. In recent years, Russia invited the two Koreas to join in constructing an “Iron Silk Road” that cuts across the Korean Peninsula. If built, it will connect the Trans-Siberian Railway to Rajin, Chongjin and the South Korean city of Busan, allowing for unimpeded transport of coal and iron.China’s and Russia’s interest in the port of Chongjin points toward an important future role for this city.Anne HuFTV News DirectorThis is our first visit to North Korea following a major shake-up at the upper echelons of power. While our application was accepted, the mutual trust we had accumulated was wiped out, adding to difficulties. At our hotel we conduct nightly rehearsals to prepare for the challenges and unsettled itineraries we face.This is FTV’s Anne Hu, C. F. Su and Chun-hao Yeh with an exclusive report from North Korea.
Six times in six years FTV applied to visit North Korea, succeeding on five occasions. Plans to visit four administrative districts made the paperwork on this latest trip particularly daunting, but persistence paid off, as FTV became the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, a northeast provincial capital known as the “City of Iron.” Travel documents are essential to secure passage across the border of a province, directly administered city or special city in North Korea. On bidding farewell to Rason, we head south for Chongjin, the capital of North Hamgyong Province and the country’s third largest city.After filling out forms and submitting documentation at the border, our Rason travel agents hand us over to travel agents from Chongjin.“Goodbye.”“Can we go?”“Yes.”For two and half hours we travel over bumpy mountain roads and past arid fields that should have been sowed at the beginning of May.An abrupt change from pastoral to urban setting is apparent upon entry into Chongjin. Like Rason there is a port, but the similarities end there. Chongjin is an industrial city of 600,000 that trades the open, international feeling of its busy neighbor to the north for rows of factory chimneys. Tens of thousands of workers, who produce a quarter of the nation’s steel output, primarily rely on bicycles for transit, though some use city buses and trolley buses. Second to Pyongyang in terms of trolleys, Chongjin is the only city on the east coast that has these vehicles.In the daytime, the industrial vehicles that ply the streets attract the attention of blue-clad traffic officers.“Sir, you cannot film this.”As the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, we must deal with weary handlers. They issue a stream of prohibitions: do not film pedestrians, do not film soldiers, do not film while the vehicle is moving. But they are happy to promote the city’s digital library. Completed in 2013, this is a place where students and members of the general public study typing and computer animation or go on the domestic internet.Hahn Kyung HeeDeputy Head Librarian, Chongjin LibraryWe’re open from 9 am to 6 pm and closed on Wednesdays since this is a day of rest for workers.Suspicions that North Korea harbors state-sponsored hackers made us curious about the capabilities of this young network manager.Hong Jung ChulNetwork Manager, Chongjin LibraryI work from 7 am to 7 pm. (Are there problems that you cannot solve?) If I have questions, I search the internet for answers.It’s the beginning of May and North Korea remains mired in a drought. Households accustomed to electricity restrictions have solar panels installed on their balconies. We must deal with water and power cuts at our hotel.Park Hyun KyungChongjin GuideThere was no power this morning. (There was no water yesterday). When there’s a blackout, use this bucket to flush the toilet.North Koreans keep water reserves. Without street lights, each evening the city is plunged into a darkness broken only by headlights and small lamps scattered among a few households. Nighttime temperatures drop to just 4 degrees Celsius, but the hotel doesn’t provide warm water for bathing.Despite these problems, Chongjin does feature a clean, undeveloped coastline. Five minutes away a revolutionary site abuts a white sandy beach and coastal homes in a picturesque setting.The city’s greatest asset is its ice-free port. In 2012, China leased the port’s third and fourth piers to serve as a transport hub for goods flowing between China, South Korea, Russia and Japan. In recent years, Russia invited the two Koreas to join in constructing an “Iron Silk Road” that cuts across the Korean Peninsula. If built, it will connect the Trans-Siberian Railway to Rajin, Chongjin and the South Korean city of Busan, allowing for unimpeded transport of coal and iron.China’s and Russia’s interest in the port of Chongjin points toward an important future role for this city.Anne HuFTV News DirectorThis is our first visit to North Korea following a major shake-up at the upper echelons of power. While our application was accepted, the mutual trust we had accumulated was wiped out, adding to difficulties. At our hotel we conduct nightly rehearsals to prepare for the challenges and unsettled itineraries we face.This is FTV’s Anne Hu, C. F. Su and Chun-hao Yeh with an exclusive report from North Korea.
This is a simulation of landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea. I hope you enjoy the video.
#recommended
#msfs2020
#flightsimulator2...
This is a simulation of landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea. I hope you enjoy the video.
#recommended
#msfs2020
#flightsimulator2020
This is a simulation of landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea. I hope you enjoy the video.
#recommended
#msfs2020
#flightsimulator2020
Chongjin, North Hamgyong is the largest industrial hub in the DPRK, the provincial capital and third most populous city in the country. Despite all of this, it's rarely visited by foreigners. However, its history is incredibly interesting - from Japanese Imperial-era fishing village to major city in under 100 years.
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Twitter: @BenWestonDPRK
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#NorthKorea #DPRK #Chongjin
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Chongjin is a major port city on the DPRK's northeastern seaboard, as well as a hub for heavy industry stretching back over a century.
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Website: dprkexplained.com
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#NorthKorea #DPRK #Shorts
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Attending article available here: http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03200&num=14782
Read up about my travels to Chongjin city and North Korea on:
http://www.travellingtheunknown.com/?p=174
Fantastic performance by young North Korean kindergarten students in Chongjin city, in the north east of North Korea.
Please do not use or reproduce the video without permission. For permission requests contact [email protected]
Attending article available here: http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03200&num=14550
[Anchor Lead]
KBS has exclusively obtained recent footage that filmed the Hamgyongbukdo Province region in North Korea. The video shows that among the many slogan placards seen on the streets, many concerned the economy rather than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while most nuclear-related slogans had nearly disappeared.
[Pkg]
This rural village in North Korea's Hamgyongbukdo Province faces the Chinese border city of Tumen. We see North Koreans busily engaged in fall harvest work. An old truck perilously runs through the rice paddy filled with straw stacks and even carries people on the top. A bus of Chinese tourists traveled through country roads and finally arrives in a big city. Chongjin is the third largest city in North Korea after Pyongyang and Hamhung. Many slogans are spotted calling for advancing the economy to safeguard the ruling party. In all the propaganda banners filmed in this area, KBS has found the word 'economy' appears 47 times in total, much more than the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un which appears 29 times. Nuclear terminology was found just once in a rural town on the outskirts of Chongjin. Musan Mine in North Korea is the largest iron ore mine in Asia which the North's founder Kim Il-sung affectionately called the country's treasure. With exports blocked due to global sanctions, piles of iron ore concentrates are found just lying in the open air. Local sources say there's not enough fuel to run the blast furnace because imports are blocked and this is affecting the operation of steel mills. Pyongyang is declaring utmost efforts toward building the economy but the reality is harsh amid global sanctions and isolation from the international community.
[Soundbite] Prof. An Mun-seok(Chonbuk Nat'l University) : "The North Koreans also know that a small country possessing nukes will face economic, diplomatic isolation and difficulties. Kim Jong-un will surely have known this too."
Experts say it remains to be seen whether noticeably scan
Six times in six years FTV applied to visit North Korea, succeeding on five occasions. Plans to visit four administrative districts made the paperwork on this latest trip particularly daunting, but persistence paid off, as FTV became the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, a northeast provincial capital known as the “City of Iron.” Travel documents are essential to secure passage across the border of a province, directly administered city or special city in North Korea. On bidding farewell to Rason, we head south for Chongjin, the capital of North Hamgyong Province and the country’s third largest city.After filling out forms and submitting documentation at the border, our Rason travel agents hand us over to travel agents from Chongjin.“Goodbye.”“Can we go?”“Yes.”For two and half hours we travel over bumpy mountain roads and past arid fields that should have been sowed at the beginning of May.An abrupt change from pastoral to urban setting is apparent upon entry into Chongjin. Like Rason there is a port, but the similarities end there. Chongjin is an industrial city of 600,000 that trades the open, international feeling of its busy neighbor to the north for rows of factory chimneys. Tens of thousands of workers, who produce a quarter of the nation’s steel output, primarily rely on bicycles for transit, though some use city buses and trolley buses. Second to Pyongyang in terms of trolleys, Chongjin is the only city on the east coast that has these vehicles.In the daytime, the industrial vehicles that ply the streets attract the attention of blue-clad traffic officers.“Sir, you cannot film this.”As the first Taiwanese media group to visit Chongjin, we must deal with weary handlers. They issue a stream of prohibitions: do not film pedestrians, do not film soldiers, do not film while the vehicle is moving. But they are happy to promote the city’s digital library. Completed in 2013, this is a place where students and members of the general public study typing and computer animation or go on the domestic internet.Hahn Kyung HeeDeputy Head Librarian, Chongjin LibraryWe’re open from 9 am to 6 pm and closed on Wednesdays since this is a day of rest for workers.Suspicions that North Korea harbors state-sponsored hackers made us curious about the capabilities of this young network manager.Hong Jung ChulNetwork Manager, Chongjin LibraryI work from 7 am to 7 pm. (Are there problems that you cannot solve?) If I have questions, I search the internet for answers.It’s the beginning of May and North Korea remains mired in a drought. Households accustomed to electricity restrictions have solar panels installed on their balconies. We must deal with water and power cuts at our hotel.Park Hyun KyungChongjin GuideThere was no power this morning. (There was no water yesterday). When there’s a blackout, use this bucket to flush the toilet.North Koreans keep water reserves. Without street lights, each evening the city is plunged into a darkness broken only by headlights and small lamps scattered among a few households. Nighttime temperatures drop to just 4 degrees Celsius, but the hotel doesn’t provide warm water for bathing.Despite these problems, Chongjin does feature a clean, undeveloped coastline. Five minutes away a revolutionary site abuts a white sandy beach and coastal homes in a picturesque setting.The city’s greatest asset is its ice-free port. In 2012, China leased the port’s third and fourth piers to serve as a transport hub for goods flowing between China, South Korea, Russia and Japan. In recent years, Russia invited the two Koreas to join in constructing an “Iron Silk Road” that cuts across the Korean Peninsula. If built, it will connect the Trans-Siberian Railway to Rajin, Chongjin and the South Korean city of Busan, allowing for unimpeded transport of coal and iron.China’s and Russia’s interest in the port of Chongjin points toward an important future role for this city.Anne HuFTV News DirectorThis is our first visit to North Korea following a major shake-up at the upper echelons of power. While our application was accepted, the mutual trust we had accumulated was wiped out, adding to difficulties. At our hotel we conduct nightly rehearsals to prepare for the challenges and unsettled itineraries we face.This is FTV’s Anne Hu, C. F. Su and Chun-hao Yeh with an exclusive report from North Korea.
This is a simulation of landing at Orang Airport in Chongjin, North Hamgyong, North Korea. I hope you enjoy the video.
#recommended
#msfs2020
#flightsimulator2020
Chŏngjin (Chosŏn'gŭl:청진시;MR:Ch'ŏngjin-si[tɕʰʌŋdʑin ɕʰi]) is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province and the country's third largest city. It is sometimes called the City of Iron.
History
Chongjin was a small fishing village prior to the Japanese annexation of Korea; its date of establishment is unknown. The Chinese characters for its name mean 'clear river crossing'.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Japanese forces landed at Chongjin, and established a supply base due to its proximity to the front lines in Manchuria. The Japanese remained after the end of the war, and in 1908, declared the city an open trading port both for transport of Korean resources and as a stopping point for resources from China. The city was known during this period as “Seishin”, after the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters for its name. The Imperial Japanese Army’s 19th Division was headquartered in Ranam from 1918, where the Japanese built a new planned city based on a rectangular street grid. In the 1930, Nippon Steel built a large steel mill, the Seishin Iron and Steel Works, in the town. Ranam was annexed to Chongjin in 1940, which was elevated to city status. The city was overrun after a brief resistance by the Soviet Union on August 13, 1945, only a couple of days before the end of World War II.
Under the rule of North Korea, Chongjin remained an important military and industrial center. It was directly administered by the central government from 1960-1967 and from 1977-1988.