Korea Today

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Korea Today
Cover page of Korea Today
Vice-Director and Editor-in-Chief Han Pong Chan[1]
Former editors Son Din-fa
Categories current affairs,[1] propaganda
Frequency Monthly
Format 26cm,[2] 50-55 pages[3]
Online[2] (PDF)
Circulation 138,000 (1997)[3]
First issue January 1950 (1950-01)
Company Foreign Languages Publishing House
Country North Korea
Based in Sochong-dong, Sosong District, Pyongyang[4]
Language English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
Website naenara.com.kp
ISSN 0454-4072
OCLC number 8797015

Korea Today, first published as New Korea,[5] is a North Korean propaganda[6] magazine published monthly by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang.[1]

The magazine focuses on cultural and industrial progress made in the country.[7] It also publishes North Korea short stories.[8] Copies of the magazine are handed out to tourists on flights into the country.[9]

The magazine was initially published in Russian only.[5] Today, it is published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.[4]

History

The magazine was first published as New Korea (Russian: Новая Корея) in January 1950[5] by the New Korea Publishing House,[10] the predecessor of the Foreign Languages Publishing House.[11] Since 1959, it has been published as Korea Today.[2]

In December 1955, Son Din-fa[12] (MR: Song Chin-p'a), the chief editor of New Korea, was dismissed from his post and convicted to manual labor after drawing influences of De-Stalinization from the Soviet Union and criticizing the personality cult of Kim Il-sung.[13]

See also

References

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