On Saturday, two days after the explosion, Pyongyang's state-controlled news media made the first acknowledgment of the disaster, saying only that the damages were very serious. "An explosion occurred at Ryongchon railway station in North Phyongan Province on April 22 due to the electrical contact caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and tank wagons," the Korean Central News Agency said.
2012 March 16, “US: NKorea planned rocket launch a ‘deal-breaker’”, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 2023-06-07[4]:
Liftoff will take between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launch pad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media.
2017 July 4, Louis Emanuel, “North Korea tests US with latest missile launch on Independence Day”, in The Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2022[6]:
The “unidentified ballistic missile” was fired from a site near Panghyon in North Phyongan province, the South’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement, and came down in the East Sea, the Korean name for the Sea of Japan. It flew for “several hundred kilometres”, an unusually long time, they added.
2019 September 24, Jane Chung, Ju-min Park, Hyunjoo Jin, “South Korea confirms fifth case of African swine fever”, in Tom Hogue, Jason Neely, editors, Reuters[7], archived from the original on 2023-06-07, WORLD NEWS[8]:
In North Korea, which faces chronic food shortages, swine fever has killed all pigs in North Phyongan province, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s intelligence agency.
