Ryŏkp'o-guyŏk, or Ryŏkp'o District, is one of the 18 wards (guyŏk) that constitute Pyongyang, North Korea.
This is where part of the Goguryeo tombs of Pyongyang can be found.
One theory suggests that it resulted from a misreading of the original chinese name Kompo(劍浦) which read the character Kom(劍) as ryok(力).The original name Kompo was said to be named because it was a spot where Kokuryo generals cleaned their swords in the creeks.Another theory suggests the name Ryokpo had an actual origin, because of an incident in the Joseon dynasty where the people used pure human force to block the incoming waters during high tide.
[2] The modern county was created in 1960 from the Rangrang-guyok and Sungho guyok(present day Sungho county).It merged some areas from Chunghwa County in 1965.
[2] Ryŏkp'o-guyŏk is divided into 6 tong (neighbourhoods) and 6 ri (villages):