Pyongyang

[ pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong- ]

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noun

a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part.

Pyongyang

/ ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ /

noun

the capital of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River: industrial centre; university (1946). Pop: 3 284 000 (2005 est)

Pyongyang

Capital of North Korea and largest city in the country, located in west-central North Korea.

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Notes

Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city, but little remains from its three-thousand-year history, after successive devastations by Japan and in the Korean War .

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Example Sentences

The Bureau keeps publicly condemning Pyongyang for the Sony hack.

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And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.

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Pyongyang hackers, according to numerous reports, used Chinese IP addresses for their attacks on Sony.

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Pyongyang, for instance, is much more concerned about the release of the film in other formats.

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Pyongyang has given the Obama administration no choice but to retaliate now by imposing sanctions or even an embargo.

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