Hungnam

Proper noun

Hungnam

1. A district of Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
   • With communist forces attacking the U.S. perimeter around Hungnam, U.S. ships, aided by the merchant marine, were able to evacuate more than 100,000 military personnel and approximately 100,000 North Korean refugees.2000 December 27, Steve Vogel, “U.S. Remembers Heroic Evacuation From Besieged North Korean Port”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 May 2024
   • Moon was born on Jan. 24, 1953, during the Korean War, on Geoje island off the southern tip of the peninsula. His parents had fled from the North during the war, sailing for three days on the deck of a U.S. ship packed with refugees.
     “I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing...2017 May 9, Hyunjoo Jin, Cynthia Kim, Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee, Jack Kim, “South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight”, in Soyoung Kim, Bill Tarrant, editors, Reuters, archived from the...