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Culture of Ch'ongjin


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and Mt. Chilbosan. It also has a zoo, but currently has no animals in it. Chongjin's most famous product is processed squid. The city is also home to the football team, the Ch'ŏngjin Chandongcha.

The local newspaper is Hambuk Daily.

Chongjin is featured in the book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

Other Cultural Locations

North Hamgyong Province Theater

Chonmasan Hotel - for foreign visitors to stay at built to covey the power of the government over the individual; in 1997, a French aid worker from Action contre la Faim was allowed to stay there but was not let out of the hotel to observe the famine conditions.

Pohanng Square - has a 25 foot bronze statue and the Revolutionary History Museum

Inmin Daehakseup Dang (or, Grand People's Study

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