Korea Today
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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 |
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| 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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- 1 2 3 "Korea Today (Journal, magazine, 1959)". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- 1 2 "Periodicals of DPRK". KCNA. 27 March 1997. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- 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.
- 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (26 June 2014). "Threatening war over a Seth Rogen movie? Business as usual for North Korea". Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1989. p. 40. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.