Pyeongyang

Proper noun

Pyongyang

1. The capital city of North Korea.
   • Within less than twenty days after landing at Fusan, Konishi, and Kato, Commander of the Second Contingent of the Japanese Army, occupied Seoul, and the Korean King fled to Pyongyang. The Japanese generals did not stop long in Seoul. Kato marched into the province of North Hamkyong and went as far...1913, “Japanese-Korean Relations after the Japanese Invasion of Korea in the XVIth Century.”, in I Yamagata, editor, Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume IV, number...

   Synonyms:

   P'ing-jang, Pingjang, Pengyang

2. (metonymically) The North Korean government.
   • The US State Department said it welcomed talks between Pyongyang and Seoul on North Korea’s participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, despite a US lawmaker’s call for America to boycott the Games.2018 January 10, Zhenhua Lu, “US ‘welcomes’ softer tone on Korean Peninsula but watches Pyongyang warily”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2018, Asia