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No Gun Ri

No Gun Ri proper noun: a village in Hwanggan, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Also the ellipsis of No Gun Ri massacre.

Proper noun

No Gun Ri

  1. A village in Hwanggan, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
    • The letter -- dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 -- is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.2006 May 30, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, “Letter on Korean War Massacre Reveals Plan to Shoot Refugees Historian Discovers U.S. Envoy's Writings Relating to No Gun Ri”, in The Washington Post...
    • Over the years Mr. Chung — who died on Aug. 1 at 91 at his home in Daejeon, South Korea — amassed evidence that American troops had systematically killed more than 100, and possibly as many as 400, civilian refugees early in the Korean War near a railroad bridge outside the South Korean village of...2014 August 22, Douglas Martin, “Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2014, Asia Pacific

Also used as

No Gun Ri is also the ellipsis of No Gun Ri massacre.

Forms of No Gun Ri

alternative formNogeun-ri
alternative formNogun-ri
alternative formNogeun Ri
alternative formNogun Ri
alternative formNogeun Village
alternative formNo Gun Village
alternative formNogun Village

Origin of No Gun Ri

From Korean 노근리(老斤里) (Nogeulli).

Questions about No Gun Ri

What does No Gun Ri mean?
No Gun Ri means a village in Hwanggan, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
What part of speech is No Gun Ri?
No Gun Ri is a proper noun.

Words near No Gun Ri in the dictionary

  1. no good deed ever goes unpunished
  2. no good deed goes unpunished
  3. no gos
  4. no great scratch
  5. no great shakes
  6. No Gun Ri
  7. no guts, no glory
  8. no hard feelings
  9. no harm done
  10. no harm, no foul
  11. no harm, no fowl

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