Editing Paektu Mountain (section)

=== Korea ===
[[File:Emblem of North Korea.svg|thumb|upright|Mount Paektu on the national [[emblem of North Korea]].]]
The mountain has been considered sacred by Koreans throughout history.<ref name=":6" /> According to [[Korean mythology]], it was the birthplace of [[Dangun]], the founder of [[Gojoseon]] (2333–108 BC), whose parents were said to be [[Hwanung]], the Son of Heaven, and [[Ungnyeo]], a bear who had been transformed into a woman.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-32702-1 |pages=22–25}}</ref> Many subsequent kingdoms of Korea, such as [[Buyeo Kingdom|Buyeo]], [[Goguryeo]], [[Balhae]], [[Goryeo]] and Joseon recognized this myth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://enc.daum.net/dic100/viewContents.do?&m=all&articleID=b09b0712b |title=Korea Britannica |language=ko |publisher=Enc.daum.net |access-date=27 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Song |first=Yong-deok |title=The recognition of mountain Baekdu in the Koryo dynasty and early times of the Joseon dynasty |journal=History and Reality V.64 |year=2007}}</ref>

The Goryeo dynasty (935–1392) first called the mountain ''Baekdu'',<ref>[[Goryeosa]] ([[Gwangjong of Goryeo|King Gwangjong]] reign, 959)</ref> recording that the [[Jurchen people|Jurchens]] across the Yalu River were made to live outside of Mount Baekdu. The Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) recorded volcanic eruptions in 1597, 1668, and 1702. In the 15th century, [[Sejong the Great of Joseon|King Sejong]] strengthened the fortification along the Tumen and Yalu rivers, making the mountain a natural border with the northern peoples.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kr.dic.yahoo.com/search/enc/result.html?p=%B9%E9%B5%CE%BB%EA&pk=13856900&subtype=&type=enc&field=id |title=Yahoo Korea Encyclopedia |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=27 December 2013 |archive-date=19 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519194758/http://kr.dic.yahoo.com/search/enc/result.html?p=%B9%E9%B5%CE%BB%EA&pk=13856900&subtype=&type=enc&field=id |url-status=dead}}</ref> Some Koreans claim that the entire region near Mount Paektu and the Tumen River belongs to Korea and parts of it were illegally given away by Japanese colonialists to China through the [[Gando Convention]].{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

Mount Baekdu is mentioned in the national anthems of both North and South Korea and in the Korean folk song "[[Arirang]]".

Dense forest around the mountain provided bases for Korean armed resistance against the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]], and later communist guerrillas during the [[Korean War]]. [[Kim Il Sung]] organized his resistance against the Japanese forces there, and North Korea claims that [[Kim Jong Il]] was born there,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.korea-dpr.com/ocn/ |title=Moved |publisher=Korea-dpr.com |access-date=27 December 2013 |archive-date=25 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225053625/http://www.korea-dpr.com/ocn/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> although records outside of North Korea suggest that he was born in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1671983 |publisher=NPR |date=12 February 2004 |title=A Visit to Kim Jong Il's Russian Birthplace |last=Sheets |first=Lawrence}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1907197.stm |title=Profile: Kim Jong-il |work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 January 2009}}</ref>

The peak has been featured on the state [[emblem of North Korea]] since 1993, as defined in Article 169 of the [[Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea|Constitution]], which describes Mt. Paektu as "the sacred mountain of the revolution".<ref>{{cite book |title=Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030041832/http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/book/download.php?4+4047 |archive-date=30 October 2015 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/book/download.php?4+4047 |year=2014 |format=PDF |publisher=[[Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)|Foreign Languages Publishing House]] |location=Pyongyang |isbn=978-9946-0-1099-1 |page=35}} Amended and supplemented on 1 April, Juche 102 (2013), at the Seventh Session of the Twelfth Supreme People's Assembly.</ref> The mountain is often referred to in slogans such as: "Let us accomplish the Korean revolution in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu!"<ref>{{cite news |title=Decoding North Korea's fish and mushroom slogans |last=Gee |first=Alison |work=[[BBC News]] |date=13 February 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31446387 |access-date=13 February 2015}}</ref> [[North Korean media]] celebrates natural phenomena witnessed at the mountain as portentous,<ref>{{cite web |title=Wonders of nature |url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1997/9707/news7/12.htm |publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] |date=12 July 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012034318/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1997/9707/news7/12.htm |archive-date=12 October 2014}}</ref> and [[Weather forecasting|weather forecasts]] aired by state broadcaster [[Korean Central Television]] list [[Paektusan Secret Camp]], claimed birthplace of [[Kim Jong Il]], behind only the capital of [[Pyongyang]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Martyn |date=29 April 2019 |title=KCTV refreshes its weather forecast presentation % |url=https://www.northkoreatech.org/2019/04/30/kctv-refreshes-weather-forecast-presentation/ |access-date=30 May 2021 |website=[[North Korea Tech]] - 노스코리아테크 |language=en-US}}</ref> The mountain's name is used for various products, such as the [[Paektusan (rocket)|Paektusan rocket]], the Paektusan computer, and the Mt Paektu handgun.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-32702-1 |pages=28, 435}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Jager |first=Sheila Miyoshi |author-link=Sheila Miyoshi Jager |title=Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea |year=2013 |publisher=Profile Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84668-067-0 |pages=464–65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailynk.com/english/mt-paektu-handgun-gifted-by-former-supreme-leader-vanishes/ |last=Ha |first=Yuna |title=Mt. Paektu handgun gifted by former Supreme Leader vanishes |work=[[Daily NK]] |date=2 October 2018 |access-date=14 November 2023}}</ref>

In the 2019 South Korean [[disaster film]] ''[[Ashfall (film)|Ashfall]]'', the mountain erupts and causes severe earthquakes in the Korean peninsula.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kao |first=Anthony |date=29 December 2019 |title=Review: "Ashfall" Is An Epic Disaster Film With Korean Flavor…And Tropes Galore |url=https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2019/12/review-ashfall-korean-movie/ |access-date=15 July 2023 |website=Cinema Escapist |language=en}}</ref>