Unhung station

{{Short description|Railway station in North Korea}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Unhŭng

| native_name = 운흥

| native_name_lang = ko

| image =

| image_size =

| image_caption =

| mlanguage = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes

| hangul = 운흥역

| hanja = {{linktext|雲|興|驛}}

| mr = Unhŭng-yŏk

| rr = Unheung-yeok

}}

| borough = Unhŭng-ŭp,
Unhŭng,
Ryanggang

| country = North Korea

| platform =

| tracks =

| connections =

| opened = 1 September 1935

| closed =

| rebuilt =

| electrified = yes

| owned = Korean State Railway

| former =

| coordinates = {{coord|41.3056|128.4977|type:railwaystation_region:KP|display=inline,title}}

| services = {{adjacent stations|system=KSR|line=Paektusan Chongnyon Line|left=Poan|right=Saengjang}}

}}

Unhŭng station is a railway station in Unhŭng-ŭp, Unhŭng county, Ryanggang province, North Korea, on the Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), {{ISBN|978-4-10-303731-6}}

Originally called Pongdu-ri station (Chosŏn'gŭl: 봉두리역; Hanja: 鳳頭里駅), the station, along with the rest of the Paegam–Pongdu-ri section, was opened by the Government Railways of Chosen (朝鮮総督府鉄道) on 1 September 1935.Japanese Government Railways (1937), 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在 (The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo It received its current name after the establishment of the DPRK.

On 9 October 2006 an underground nuclear test was conducted at P'unggye-ri in Kilju County, causing the closure of the line for 3-4 months.[http://monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?ctcd=&nNewsNumb=200704100037 核실험 후 4개월간 길주-혜산 봉쇄]

Iron sulphide is the main commodity shipped from Unhŭng.The traffic and geography in North Korea: [http://m.terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=2090781&cid=44454&categoryId=44461 Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line] (in Korean)