| Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region | |
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Coat of Arms |
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Map of North Korea highlighting the region. |
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| Korean name | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 신의주 특별 행정구 |
| Hancha | 新義州特別行政區 |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sinŭiju T'ŭkpyŏl Haengjŏnggu |
| Revised Romanization | Sinuiju Teukbyeol Haengjeonggu |
| Short name | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 신의주 |
| Hancha | 新義州 |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sinŭiju |
| Revised Romanization | Sinuiju |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 132 km2 (51 sq mi) |
| Population (1998 (est.)) | 349,500 |
| Population density | 2,647.7/km2 (6,857.6/sq mi) |
| Government | Special Administrative Region with its own Basic Law |
| Region | Kwansŏ |
| Dialect | P'yŏngan |
| Notes | |
| Split from North P'yŏngan in 2002. | |
Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region was a proposed special administrative region (SAR) of North Korea, on the border with China. It was established in September 2002 in an area including parts of Sinŭiju and the surrounding area, in an attempt to introduce market economics, and is directly governed as in the case of "Directly Governed Cities". The special administrative region was modelled after China's Special Administrative Regions (SARs), Hong Kong and Macau, and, like them, has a "Basic Law" (기본법; Kibonpŏp).
Chinese-Dutch businessman Yang Bin was appointed to be the first governor by the SPA Presidium in 2002. Before he formally assumed his post, he was arrested by Chinese authorities and sentenced to 18 years in prison for tax evasion and other economic crimes. While the North Korean authorities soon announced that the development of the Sinŭiju SAR would continue and the SAR was put under the administration of its Commission of Foreign Economic Cooperation Promotion, the plans for the SAR seem to have been abandoned. As of April 2008, the SAR reforms still have not been put into effect, and it is widely believed that North Korea has abandoned the project after the governor's arrest.
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The order below follows the order given in the original decree (in Korean) [1].
Due to the areas included in the Special Administrative Region, it is not one single contiguous region, as to get from Sinŭiju city to Yŏmju county, one must pass through another county outside the region first.
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