capital of North Korea


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Noun1.capital of North Korea - capital of North Korea and an industrial center; "Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved"
Pyongyang
D.P.R.K., Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, North Korea - a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
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