Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)
North Korean publisher
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The Foreign Languages Publishing House (FLPH) is the central North Korean publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the Potonggang-guyok of Pyongyang, North Korea.[1] 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. It was founded at December 10, 1949.[2]
| Foreign Languages Publishing House | |
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE - PYONGYANG, KOREA | |
| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 외국문출판사 |
| Hancha | 外國文出版社 |
| Revised Romanization | Oegungmun-chulpansa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Oegungmun-ch'ulp'ansa |
The publishing house is under the control of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, which also makes decisions concerning its staff.[3]
Foreign Languages Publishing House maintains the Naenara and Publications of the DPRK web portals,[4][5] and publishes the periodicals Korea, Korea Today, Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and the newspaper Pyongyang Times.[3]
Foreign Languages Publishing House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games.[6]
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 – a Soviet printing house which published books and pamphlets in English on a wide range of topics
