Uiju
A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.
“It is learned on good authority that China intends to dispatch troops to Korea by land, and they are said to have already reached Uiju.”
“Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.”
“Mukedeng next tried to get more information on the frontier by ordering some minor local officials to write a detailed description of all they knew about the geography between Uiju and the Pyesagun as far as Kapsan, even including the six commanderies in the lower stretches of the Yalu River.”
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From Korean 의주(義州) (Uiju).
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