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Sungam Ni Airport

Military air base in North Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4169830 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sungam Ni Airport is an airport in Sŭngam-rodongjagu, Kyongsong-gun, Hamgyong-bukto, North Korea.

Facilities

The airfield has a single asphalt runway 14/32 measuring 2950 x 190 feet (899 x 58 m). It is sited along the east coast of North Korea.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sungam Ni Airport” as military air base in North Korea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sungam, Airport and Military can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as military air base in North Korea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4169830. Authority coordinates are 41.674, 129.677. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sungam Ni Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.