Kosong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 고성(高城) (Goseong).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kôʹsǔngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Kosong

  1. A county of Kangwon Province, North Korea.
    • 1979 September 24 [1979 September 21], “American Plane Intrudes Into Airspace of DPRK”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 186, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs; United States, page B 4:
      An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kosong”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 975, column 1: “Kosong (kôʹsǔngʹ), Jap. [Japanese] Kojo,”
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