Kanggye

From Korean 강계(江界) (Ganggye).

• enPR: kängʹgyāʹ^[1]

Kanggye

1. A city in Chagang Province, North Korea.
   • 2018 January 30, Adam Taylor, “North Korea’s push for ski resorts reveals its hopes for a life after isolation”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2018‎^[3]:

     The quick turnaround and high standards seen at the resort were a sign of how important the project was to Kim. “Masikryong is Kim Jong Un's project, so the government would do whatever it needs to get the right stuff,” Katzeff Silberstein said. And the construction apparently went so well that North Korea recently unveiled another ski resort in Kanggye, which local media described as being completed at “Masikryong Speed” because it opened just five months after construction began.

   • 2018 November 11, Hampton Sides, “Remembering the Forgotten War”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 November 2018, Opinion‎^[5]:

     Hours later, Private Chapman awoke to find himself with 10 other captives, hunched on the dirt floor of a farmhouse. Chinese guards marched them on mountain trails for 19 days until they reached a place called Kanggye, near the Manchurian border. Private Chapman languished there for nearly three years.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kanggye”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1496, column 2