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Sinuiju (sēn`  `ē`j ), Jap. Shingishu, city (1993 pop. 326,011), W North Korea, on the Yellow Sea at the mouth of the Yalu River. A main northern gateway to Korea, it developed from a logging center into a port and rail terminus. A bridge (built 1910) over the Yalu connects it with NE China. It has air, rail, and road ties with Pyongyang. In World War II it became an industrial center with manufactures of chemicals, aluminum, and textiles. Power comes from the huge Supung Dam. In 2002 the North Korean government announced plans to develop a special economic zone in the city. |
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To begin with, on 12 September 2002, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) assigned Sinuiju the designation of 'special administrative district'; on 19 September, it decreed a 'basic law' for the district. That's when her parents led her and her younger sister from their home in Sinuiju (shin-ya-joo), North Korea, a city near the Chinese border. In Washington, a White House spokeswoman said officials from the Swedish Embassy had visited Hunzike about three weeks ago at a hotel where he was being held in the North Korean city of Sinuiju, but that the United States did not know where he was now. |
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