Chunggang County is a kun , or county, in northern Chagang province, North Korea . It was originally part of Huchang county in Ryanggang, and for that reason older sources still identify it as being part of Huchang. The county seat was originally known as Chunggangjin (중강진), but is now known as Chunggang ŭp . Chunggang looks across the Yalu River at China, and borders Ryanggang province to the south.
5-661: The Chunggang Revolutionary Site is associated with Kim Hyŏng-jik . It has been reported that an Intermediate-range ballistic missile base was constructed in Chunggang in the early 1990s, and that its missiles are targeted at Okinawa . Chunggang County is divided into 1 ŭp (town), 1 rodongjagu (workers' district) and 8 ri (villages): Chunggang has a monsoon influenced humid continental climate ( Köppen Climate Classification Dwa ) with hot summers and severely cold winters. The climate features very large differences between summer and winter temperatures. On January 12, 1933,
10-411: A part-time Protestant missionary. It was reported that his son, Kim Il Sung, attended church services during his teenage years before becoming an atheist later in life. Kim Il Sung often spoke of his father's idea of chiwŏn (지원(志遠), righteous aspirations). Kim Jong Il's official government biography states that his grandfather was "the leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement and
15-456: A temperature of -43 °C was recorded at Chunggangjin. The average January temperature is -16.0 °C, with temperatures rising to a July average of 22.5 °C. Kim Hyong-jik Kim Hyong-jik ( Korean : 김형직 ; 10 July 1894 – 5 June 1926) was a Korean independence activist during Japanese rule . He was the father of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung ,
20-501: The paternal grandfather of Kim Jong Il , and a great-grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un . Little is known about Kim. Born on 10 July 1894, in the small village of Mangyongdae , situated atop a peak called Mangyungbong (만경봉(萬景峰),"All-Seeing Peak") just 12 kilometers downstream on the Taedong River from Pyongyang, Kim was the son of Kim Pohyŏn (1871–1955). Kim attended Sungshil School ( 평양숭실학교 ), which
25-714: Was run by American missionaries, and became a teacher at the Sunhwa school ( 순화학교 ) in Mangyongdae in 1913 and the Christian Myongsin school ( 명신학교 ) in Ponghwa-ri, Kangdong County in 1916 and later worked as a herbal pharmacist . According to the North Korean official sources, he died as a result of numerous medical problems, including third-degree frostbite . Kim and his wife attended Christian churches, and Kim even served as
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