{"slug": "pyongyang", "label": "Pyongyang", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18808", "qid": "Q18808", "description": "capital city of North Korea", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-1121, 2014], "span_label": ["1122 BCE", "2014 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["P'yongyang"], "related": [{"slug": "goguryeo", "label": "Goguryeo", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "beijing", "label": "Beijing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-korea", "label": "North Korea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khmer-rouge", "label": "Khmer Rouge", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "people-s-liberation-army", "label": "People's Liberation Army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "han-dynasty", "label": "Han dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "korea", "label": "Korea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "barack-obama", "label": "Barack Obama", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "paekche", "label": "Paekche", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1121, "year_label": "1122 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1122 BC—Legendary founding of Pyongyang", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333038836#Events_and_trends", "title": "1120s BC", "revid": 1333038836, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -108, "year_label": "109 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Emperor Wu orders the invasion. The Han general Yang Pu crosses the Yellow Sea and marches on the capital Wangxian (Pyongyang) but is defeated outside its gates. Another general, Xun Zhi, invades overland but fails to make headway.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703810#Asia", "title": "109 BC", "revid": 1325703810, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": -107, "year_label": "108 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Han generals Yang Pu and Xun Zhi besiege Wangxian (Pyongyang), the capital of Gojoseon. Infighting between the generals leads Xun Zhi to arrest Yang Pu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1314084077#Asia", "title": "108 BC", "revid": 1314084077, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 371, "year_label": "371 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Baekje forces sack the city of P'yongyang in Goguryeo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1283531136#Asia", "title": "371", "revid": 1283531136, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 427, "year_label": "427 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Jangsu transfers the Goguryeo capital from Gungnae City (modern Ji'an, Jilin) on the banks of the Yalu River to Pyongyang (modern Korea).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364738726#Asia", "title": "427", "revid": 1364738726, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1931, "year_label": "1931 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310518#June", "title": "1931", "revid": 1371310518, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 - The leadership of \"Angkar,\" had fostered a cult of personality centered on the \"Supreme authority\", which continues omnipresent and demanded complete loyalty to the \"Communist Party of Kampuchea\" (CPK), the People's Republic of China was the primary benefactor of the military provided by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) with the vast majority of its external support from China, while North Korea (DPRK) also served as a significant and loyal ally to the Khmer Rouge, though its material contributions were secondary to those from Beijing, with Pyongyang became generally the second-largest trading partner after China, which both maintained strong, unique ties of the geopolitical alliances between the two nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364639481#March", "title": "1978 in Cambodia", "revid": 1364639481, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "1–8 July 1989: 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362446724#Events", "title": "1989 in North Korea", "revid": 1362446724, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 to June 15: 2000 inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367613101#Events", "title": "2000 in North Korea", "revid": 1367613101, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 - Despite warnings by U.S. President Barack Obama that Jong-Un has nothing to gain from provocations, Pyongyang proceeds to launch a satellite launching rocket, which disintegrates in mid-air.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1310882598#April", "title": "2012 in North Korea", "revid": 1310882598, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – According to a South Korea Unification Ministry report, a twenty-three story apartment building collapsed in Pyongchon-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea (DPR of Korea), with more than 490 fatalities estimated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373534475#May", "title": "2014", "revid": 1373534475, "section": "Events › May"}}]}