''The Pyongyang Times'' is a weekly
state-controlled English and
French-language newspaper published in the
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 Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...
n capital,
Pyongyang
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...
, by the
Foreign Languages Publishing House. It is the foreign-language edition of the ''
Pyongyang Sinmun''.
History and availability
The eight-page
tabloid
Tabloid may refer to:
* Tabloid journalism, a type of journalism
* Tabloid (newspaper format), a newspaper with compact page size
** Chinese tabloid
* Tabloid (paper size), a North American paper size
* Sopwith Tabloid, a biplane aircraft
* ''Ta ...
was first launched on 6 May 1965 and is distributed in approximately 100 countries.
["North Korea This Week No. 435 (8 February 2007)." ]Yonhap
Yonhap News Agency is a major South Korean news agency. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea.
History
Yonhap (, , translit. ' ...
. For this reason, its staff are trained in English abroad. The
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...
also runs a website in several languages.
[ Fifty-two issues of the paper are published annually. there have been 2,672 issues. The circulation of the English and French editions is 30,000.]