Mantapsan
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Mantapsan (or Mount Mant'ap, ) is a mountain in the south of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea. The granite peak, which reaches an elevation of , is part of the Hamgyong Mountains. It is located on the border between Kilju County, Myŏnggan County and Orang County.
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- North Korea
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- North Pyongan Province
- Elevation
- 2205
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- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Mant'apsan
- Revised Romanization
- Mantapsan
- mountain range
- Hamgyong Mountains
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Mantapsan (or Mount Mant'ap, ) is a mountain in the south of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea. The granite peak, which reaches an elevation of , is part of the Hamgyong Mountains. It is located on the border between Kilju County, Myŏnggan County and Orang County.
Political prisoners were reportedly forced to dig tunnels into the southern side of the mountain, at the nuclear test site near P'unggye-ri. The horizontal tunnels are believed to be two to three meters wide and high and hundreds of meters long. This is where the detonations of the North Korean nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016 occurred.
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