Korea Today
Multi-lingual North Korean magazine
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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]
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| 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 |
| Company | Foreign Languages Publishing House |
| Country | North Korea |
| Based in | Sochong-dong, Sosong District, Pyongyang[4] |
| Language | English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0454-4072 |
| OCLC | 8797015 |
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] 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]
