The remains of Sojin Fort, an earthen wall in the period of the Imjin Patriotic War, were unearthed and identified in Sangam-ri, Kangnam County, Pyongyang Municipality of the DPRK.
A research group of the Pyongyang Municipal Agency for National Heritage Conservation and the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences has deepened the survey and unearthing of historical remains.
In the course of this, the remains of Sojin Fort were found at the site about 1.2 km northeast of the Sangam-ri seat.
The fort was a well-known combat position, in which more than 400 men of Rim Jung Ryang-led volunteers unit killed thousands of Japanese aggressors when the latter invaded the Walled City of Pyongyang in 1592 during the Imjin Patriotic War.
Preserved in the township of Junghwa County, North Hwanghae Province, is a monument to the fort. The explanation on the monument details the combat merits of the Rim Jung Ryang-led volunteers unit which had formed a camp in the west of Junghwa.
The fort was an earthen wall built along the edge of hills, and it was a long oval in its plane shape from the north to the south.
The present wall partly remains in the east and north, upper parts of the hills, with only some traces in the west and south, lower parts of the hills.
The wall remains are about 1 010m in circumference, and found there during the excavation were relics like porcelain and ceramic pieces used by the people at that time.
It was a clay-filled earthen wall, and the present remains are located 200 metres away from a shrine in Kangnam, a historical site.
The remains of Sojin Fort are of high academic value and educational significance as they are associated with the proud combat feats of Korean ancestors who bravely defeated the Japanese invaders.
The Archaeological Society of the DPRK acknowledged that the remains of Sojin Fort dating back to the feudal Joson Dynasty (1392-1910) are of weighty historic significance. And the Non-permanent Tangible Heritage Examination and Appraisal Committee evaluated the remains' value and registered them as a historical site to be preserved.
KCNA
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