Gangneung Unification Park (통일공원)
Korea (South) /
Kangwon /
Kangnung /
Aninjin-ri
World
/ Korea (South)
/ Kangwon
/ Kangnung
World / South Korea / Gangwon-do
museum, war memorial
Unification Park is composed of a Unification Security Pavilion that is a ship-shaped pavilion with display facilities and a Warship Pavilion. The land for the Warship Pavilion was reclaimed from the sea to provide the location for a captured North Korean submarine and decommissioned Naval warship.
In 1996, a North Korean submarine was stranded on the rocks at this spot near Anin. The 26-member North Korean crew escaped from the submarine and attempted to return to the north, leading to a deadly manhunt that lasted over a month. All but one North Korean crew member was killed along with 17 South Korean casualties.
The retired 4,000-ton U.S. warship, ROK Jeonbukham, is a destroyer launched by the United States in 1945 as the USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830), seeing service in the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. The warship was given to South Korea as a gift by the Americans in 1972. It defended the Korean territorial waters since it was acquired by South Korea and was honorably decommissioned after the Gulf War in 1999.
In 1996, a North Korean submarine was stranded on the rocks at this spot near Anin. The 26-member North Korean crew escaped from the submarine and attempted to return to the north, leading to a deadly manhunt that lasted over a month. All but one North Korean crew member was killed along with 17 South Korean casualties.
The retired 4,000-ton U.S. warship, ROK Jeonbukham, is a destroyer launched by the United States in 1945 as the USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830), seeing service in the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. The warship was given to South Korea as a gift by the Americans in 1972. It defended the Korean territorial waters since it was acquired by South Korea and was honorably decommissioned after the Gulf War in 1999.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°43'13"N 129°0'5"E
- Tangeumdae Terrace & Park 127 km
- The War Memorial of Korea 180 km
- Yi Sun-sin Memorial Park 329 km
- Museum Commemorating the War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea 483 km
- Soviet Martyrs' Cemetery 689 km
- Kyu Kaigun Shireibu Go 1290 km
- Capas National Shrine 2625 km
- Hellfire Pass 3943 km
- জাতীয় স্মৃতিসৌধ (National Memorial Monument) 3975 km
- National Heroes Square 4768 km
- Gangdong-myeon 4.1 km
- Gangneung Airport (K-18) 6.3 km
- Gyeongpoho (Lake) 경포호 12 km
- Gyeongpo Provincial Park (경포도립공원) 12 km
- Gangneung-Wonju National University 13 km
- Daegwallyeong Wind turbine complex 24 km
- Daegwanryeong Ranch 25 km
- Cheonmabong (천마봉) 26 km
- Hwangbyeongsan 30 km
- Yangyang International Airport 48 km