The Foreign Languages Publishing House (FLPH) is the central
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...
n publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the
Potonggang-guyok of
Pyongyang
Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...
, North Korea. It employs a small group of foreigners to revise translations of North Korean texts so as to make those texts suitable for foreign-language publication. Its was founded at December 10, 1949.
The publishing house is under the control of the
Propaganda and Agitation Department of the
Workers' Party of Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), also called the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), is the sole ruling party of North Korea. Founded in 1949 from a merger between the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea, the WPK is ...
, which also makes decisions concerning its staff.
Foreign Languages Publishing House maintains the
Naenara and
Publications of the DPRK web portals,
and publishes the periodicals ', ''
Korea Today'', ''
Foreign Trade of the DPRK'', and the newspaper ''
Pyongyang Times''.
[
Foreign Languages Publishing House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games.]
See also
* Foreign Languages Publishing House (Soviet Union), Moscow – similar publisher in Soviet Union
* Foreign Languages Press, Beijing – similar publisher in China
* Foreign Languages Publishing House (Vietnam), Hanoi – similar publisher in Vietnam which is now known as Thế Giới Publishers
* Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House
* Progress Publishers
Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet Union, Soviet publisher founded in 1931.
Publishing program
Progress Publishers published books in a variety of languages: Russian, English, and many other European and Asian languages. They issued ma ...
– a Soviet printing house which published books and pamphlets in English on a wide range of topics
References
External links
Publications for download
at ''Publications of the DPRK''
Naenara
.
() — an autobiography of a foreign reviser, Andrew Holloway is available online.
Foreign Languages Publishing House
— electronic documents published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang
Korean Publication
() — N. Korean official outlet
North Korea Books
() — Canadian firm selling North Korean literature
Korea Publications Exchange Association catalogue (books, picture albums, periodicals, video cassettes, CDs), 2003
at Wayback Machine
State publishers
Publishing companies of North Korea
Political book publishing companies
Mass media in Pyongyang
State media
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