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Wonsan (wŭn`sän), Jap. Gensan, city (1993 pop. 300,148), capital of Kangwon prov., SE North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (or East Sea). It is a major port and naval base, with a natural harbor protected by a line of islands. The city has important fish and fish-processing industries. Oil refining, rice processing, and the manufacture of locomotives, textiles, ships, chemicals, and leather goods are also important. Opened to foreign trade in 1883, Wonsan became a Japanese naval base in World War II. It suffered heavy damage during the Korean War. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We're heading for Wonsan [a port and prime target on the Sea of Japan]. The picture-postcard world of northern Korean churches and mission schools centred around P'yongyang, the Jerusalem of the East, and complemented by the missionary beach resorts at Sorai and Wonsan, was interrupted by the advent of the Pacific War in 1941, cut off by the political division of the peninsula in 1945 and destroyed forever with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. The late August docking of the Mangyongbong-92, a blocky white ferry that sporadically makes the 12-hour crossing from Wonsan in North Korea to Niigata in northwest Japan, delivered all that Japanese media hype promised. |
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