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Two people a day have been dying of hunger in South Hamgyong province, according to a report by Good Friends, a Seoul-based aid and human rights group with informants inside the country.
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Encouraged by Pyongyang, the group plans to take control of gold, copper, zinc and magnesite mines in Hamgyong, a planned mining zone on North Korea's rugged east coast.
Coming Out Party 2008
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The people abandoned him in their hearts long ago, said Yoo Sang-jun, 48, a defector from North Hamgyong province whose wife and young son were among an estimated 2 million North Koreans to die of hunger.
News - chicagotribune.com By Barbara Demick 2011
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The people abandoned him in their hearts long ago, said Yoo Sang-jun, 48, a defector from North Hamgyong province whose wife and young son were among an estimated 2 million North Koreans to die of hunger.
News - latimes.com By Barbara Demick 2011
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The western and northeastern regions of Hwanghae and South Hamgyong were hit hard, with more than 250 millimetres around 10 inches of rain recorded in some areas, it said.
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"The thing you fear most is the midnight thief," says Mrs. Choi, as she describes the well-fenced paddock around her tile-roofed home in the northern province of Hamgyong.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed CHRISTIAN OLIVER 2011
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North Korea started building at least two new tunnels at its Punggye-ri facility in northeastern North Hamgyong province for a possible underground atomic test, according to a South Korean official.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Under the uplifted banner of Songun, we should increase the country's military capability in every way to reliably safeguard the Korean socialist system and the gains of revolution and make the torch lit in South Hamgyong Province, the drive for the industrial revolution in the new century, rage throughout the country and thus bring about a decisive turn in building an economic power and improving the standard of people's living.
The Seattle Times 2011
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I’m not quite sure what the population of South Hamgyong is, or how typical its figures are for North Korea as a whole, but I actually thought things might be worse. cmholm says:
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Hamgyong-namdo (South Hamgyong), Hwanghae-bukto (North Hwanghae),
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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