Tukchang

Tŭkchang District 득장지구
District
Korean transcription(s)
• Chosŏn'gÅ­l	득장지구
• Hancha	得場地區
• McCune–Reischauer	TÅ­kchang-jigu
• Revised Romanization	Deukjang-jigu
Country	North Korea
Province	South P'yŏngan
Administrative divisions	4 workers' districts
Population (2008)
• Total	50,033[1]

Tŭkchang District is a chigu in South P'yŏngan province, North Korea.

TÅ­kchang was established as its own administrative area after separating from Pukch'ang in 1995.

Administrative districts

The district is split into four rodongjagu (workers' districts):

Kalgol-lodongjagu (갈골로동자구/갈골労働者区) Tŭkchang-rodongjagu (득장로동자구/得将労働者区) Myŏnghang-rodongjagu (명학로동자구/鳴鶴労働者区) Poŏp-rodongjagu (보업로동자구/甫業労働者区)

Transportation

Tŭkchang district is served by Myŏnghak Station in Myŏnghang-rodongjagu, the terminus of a branchline of the Korean State Railway's P'yŏngdŏk Line.

Prison Camp

Political Prison Camp No. 18 is a large prison labour colony in TÅ­kchang district and Pukch'ang County at the banks of Taedong River. Many of the 50000 prisoners are forced to work in coal mines.^[2]

References

1. DPR Korean Central Bureau of Statistics: 2008 Population Census (Population 2008, Published in 2009)
2. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea: The Hidden Gulag (Section: Testimony Kwan-li-so No. 18 Bukchang, p. 69 - 76)

External links

• (English) Map of Pyongan provinces
• (Korean) Detailed map