Korea Today

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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  2. 1 2 3 "Korea Today (Journal, magazine, 1959)". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Periodicals of DPRK". KCNA. 27 March 1997. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  4. 1 2 Katz, William A.; Sternberg Katz, Linda (1997). R. R. Bowker's Magazines for Libraries: For the General Reader and School, Junior College, College, University, and Public Libraries (9th ed.). R. R. Bowker. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8352-3907-3. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Curtis Melvin, ed. (3 December 2009). "Friday Grab Bag: NOKO Jeans go on sale; Korea Today turns 60". North Korean Economy Watch. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  6. Hassig, Ralph; Oh, Kongdan (16 April 2015). The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4422-3719-3. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  7. Harry G. Shaffer, ed. (1967). "Appendix: Index of Selected Periodicals on Communism and the Communist World". The Communist World: Marxist and Non-Marxist Views 2. Meredith Publishing Company. p. 552. OCLC 228608. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  8. David-West, Alzo (November 2013). "An Inquiry of Intentions in Kim Hye-yŏng's 'First Meeting': A North Korean Short Story in Korea Today (2007)" (PDF). Transnational Literature 6 (1): 1. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  9. Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (26 June 2014). "Threatening war over a Seth Rogen movie? Business as usual for North Korea". Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  10. Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1989. p. 40. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  11. Yonhap News Agency, Seoul (27 December 2002). North Korea Handbook. M.E. Sharpe. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-7656-3523-5. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  12. Andreĭ Nikolaevich Lanʹkov (January 2002). From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-85065-563-3. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  13. Andrei Lankov (2007). Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. University of Hawaii Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8248-3207-0. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

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