苦く難なんの行こう軍ぐん

expression, noun

Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s

Historical term referring to the severe famine and economic hardship in North Korea during the mid-to-late 1990s, officially framed as a 'march of hardship'.

• 苦く難なんの行こう軍ぐんは、1990年ねん代だいの北きた朝ちょう鮮せんの深しん刻こくな食しょく糧りょう難なんを指さす言こと葉ばだ。

  The 'Arduous March' is a term referring to the severe food shortage in North Korea during the 1990s.

• この地ち域いきでは、苦く難なんの行こう軍ぐんの記き憶おくが今いまも語かたり継つがれている。

  In this region, memories of the Arduous March are still passed down.