Daedongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Daedong

1. Alternative form of Taedong
   • 2014 September 2, Anna Fifield, “With its water parks and new buildings, North Korea’s capital coddles the elite”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 2, 2014, Asia & Pacific‎:

     A drive around Pyongyang passes building sites filled with mounds of dirt, dump trucks and cranes, where men in olive green uniforms and yellow hard hats scurry around with spades. Visitors staying at a hotel near the Daedong river go to sleep and wake up to the sound of boats dredging up sand to be made into cement.

   • 2016 May 15, Donald Kirk, “North Korea’s ‘rare’ party congress only shows a country at a standstill”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 18, 2016, Opinion‎:

     Who can forget those Arirang games enacted by tens of thousands of performers in the May Day Stadium on the Daedong River in Pyongyang, or the stunning parade of military prowess last October 10, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party? Was a single high-stepping soldier out of sync? Hardly. Was there a flaw in last weekend’s gathering in Pyongyang of the party faithful? Not likely.

   • 2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 18, 2017, Opinion‎:

     One cool morning last April in Pyongyang, North Korea, I watched a woman squat over a patch of grass along the Daedong River. A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face. As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank. In North Korea, keeping the neighborhood clean is a civic duty. But she was far from any neighborhood. She was gathering the weeds for food.

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