# Samjiyŏn Airport (YJS / ZKSE)

**Samjiyŏn Airport** (IATA: YJS, ICAO: ZKSE) is a small airport in Samjiyŏn, Ryanggang Province, North Korea. It has one runway, 3,277 m (10,750 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zkse

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YJS / ZKSE
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Samjiyŏn, Ryanggang Province, North Korea
- Elevation: 1,386 m / 4,547 ft
- Coordinates: 41.9071, 128.4098
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 3,277 m / 10,750 ft
- Time zone: UTC+9 · Asia/Pyongyang
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samjiyon_Airport (14 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717708
- Ident: ZKSE

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 3,277 m / 10,750 ft | 60 m / 197 ft | Asphalt |  |  |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [FNJ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zkpy.md) Pyongyang Sunan International Airport · North Korea · 378 km / 235 mi · Air Koryo

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YJS, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- JS [Air Koryo](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-koryo) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 3,277 m / 10,750 ft | #751 of 29,858 | #223 in Asia | #3 in KP |
| Elevation | 1,386 m / 4,547 ft | #2,613 of 43,403 | #320 in Asia | #1 in KP |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =3 in KP |

## Nearby airports

- [KP-0049](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kp-0049.md) Paegam Airstrip · 37 km / 23 mi
- [KP-0060](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kp-0060.md) Hyesan Airport · 61 km / 38 mi
- [NBS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zybs.md) Changbaishan Airport · 69 km / 43 mi
- [KP-0044](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kp-0044.md) Sungam ni Airport · 108 km / 67 mi
- [RGO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zkhm.md) Orang (Chongjin) Airport · 116 km / 72 mi
- [KP-0056](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kp-0056.md) Kuktong Airport · 121 km / 75 mi

## Sources

- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Samjiyon Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samjiyon_Airport&oldid=1369535218), revision of 15 Aug 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zkse/data