Amnok

English

Etymology

From Korean 압록강(鴨綠江) (Amnokgang).

Pronunciation

• enPR: änʹnǔkʹ

Proper noun

Amnok

1. Synonym of Yalu: the Korean-derived name.
   • 1888, W. R. Carles, Life in Corea‎^[2], Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, →OL, pages 228–229:

     A very respectable employé assured me that as many as 1000 families had in the past ten years emigrated to the Chinese side of the Amnok, which is about five miles from the town, but the neighbourhood bore a flourishing appearance, and the population was said to be still increasing.

   • 1970, Sohn Pow-key, Kim Chol-choon, Hong Yi-sup, The History of Korea‎^[3], →OCLC, →OL, pages 252–253:

     On December 27, 1910 Governor-General Terauchi was to attend a ceremony dedicating the railway bridge over the Amnok River.

   • 2015 May 3, Tong-Hyung Kim, “N. Korea arrests U.S. students for illegal entry”, in USA Today‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2015:

     North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Joo was arrested on April 22 after trying to illegally enter North Korea by crossing the Amnok River from the Chinese border town of Dandong.

   • 2016 July 15, “North Korea detains person it alleges is South Korean spy”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 30 April 2022‎^[6]:

     Ko, 53, said he was born in North Korea but fled the country in early 2013 to resettle in the South. He said he was later recruited by South Korea’s spy service for a mission to abduct children from the North. He said he was arrested May 27 on an island in the Amnok River which runs along the border between North Korea and China.

   • 2018 April 2, Tim Franco, “Telling the Stories of Defectors From North Korea”, in New York Times‎^[7], archived from the original on 03 April 2018‎^[8]:

     From a very young age, Han Song-i dreamed of becoming a star. Growing up in the northeast part of North Korea, she could observe China from the other side of the Amnok River. In those regions, North Koreans have greater access to imported goods and Chinese TV channels.

   • 2019 September 19, “The cataclysm that created a Korean icon”, in France 24‎^[9], archived from the original on 30 April 2022‎^[10]:

     It left behind a spectacular caldera, with steep walls plunging down from the rim to the shores of Chonji crater lake -- Heaven Lake in English -- with the China frontier running through its placid blue waters.
     Made up of rainwater and snowmelt, it is the source of the two rivers that form the border, the Tumen running to the northeast and the Amnok to the southwest, known as the Yalu in China, where the mountain is called Changbaishan.

   • 2020 December 4, 13:17 from the start, in A North Korean Girl's Escape to Freedom - Eunhee Park‎^[11], Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park, archived from the original on March 27, 2023:

     Yeonmi Park: So how did you plan that long- or like short journey for all of us here-, how did you go, I mean, which, I mean, river did you cross?
     Eunhee Park: So, I crossed the Amnok River- the Yalu River. And to go to China. But actually, my hometown is on the east coast of North Korea, so it is so dangerous across the border to go to South Korea directly. So I had to go to your hometown named Yanggang Province by train.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Amnok.

Translations

river

• Spanish: Amnok

Further reading

• “Amnok” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Koman, Manko, kamon