Kijŏng-dong
Sign in to saveKijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (), Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Also known in North Korea as Peace Village (), it has been widely referred to as 'Propaganda Village' () by those outside North Korea, especially in South Korean and Western media.
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- Settlement.name
- Kijong-dong
- Settlement.native_name
- 기정동機井洞
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ko
- Settlement.image_skyline
- North Korean village Kijong-dong.JPEG
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- The Panmunjom flagpole, flying the flag of North Korea.
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- North Korea
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- Location in North Korea
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Special city
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kaesŏng-T'ŭkpyŏlsi
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Ward
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- P'anmun-guyŏk
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- ri
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- P'yŏnghwa-ri
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- History
- Flagpole
- Propaganda loudspeakers
- Notes
- References
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (), Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Also known in North Korea as Peace Village (), it has been widely referred to as 'Propaganda Village' () by those outside North Korea, especially in South Korean and Western media.
Kijŏng-dong is one of two villages permitted to remain in the wide DMZ set up under the 1953 armistice during the Korean War; the other is the South Korean village of Daeseong-dong, away.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kijŏng-dong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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