North Korean weekly newspaper
The Pyongyang Times
is a weekly
state-controlled
English
and
French-language
newspaper published in the
North Korean
capital,
Pyongyang
, by the
Foreign Languages Publishing House
.
[3]
It is the foreign-language edition of the
Pyongyang Sinmun
.
[1]
History and availability
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The eight-page
tabloid
was first launched on 6 May 1965 and is distributed in approximately 100 countries.
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[5]
For this reason, its staff are trained in English abroad. The
newspaper
also runs a website in several languages.
[4]
Fifty-two issues of the paper are published annually.
[6]
As of January 2012
[update]
there have been 2,672 issues.
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The circulation of the English and French editions is 30,000.
[1]
In North Korea,
The Pyongyang Times
is in hotel lobbies, flights into the country, and other places frequented by foreigners.
Naenara
, the official North Korean news source, is the home of
The Pyongyang Times
.
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Structure and content
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The front cover is usually devoted to
Kim Jong-un
's visits to various institutions in the country along with praise for his leadership. The next few pages detail various technological and ideological exploits of the nation, followed by
propaganda
against
South Korea
,
Japan
, and the
United States
along with other nations (such as
Israel
) who are considered hostile to North Korea.
[8]
The last pages are similar to that of the
Rodong Sinmun
, offering "foreign news"?though few major world events are covered, and most of its content is focused on like-minded or socialist nations.
[9]
Most of its content, like all North Korean
state media
, is dedicated to Kim Jong-un and most of its news is translated from articles in the
Rodong Sinmun
.
[9]
It has been described as lacking "actual news"
[10]
and is "basically a rundown of Mr. Kim's daily agenda, with substantial flattery thrown in for good measure."
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Claims
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The Pyongyang Times
has made various claims about
South Korea
, particularly with regard to its allegedly poor
human rights record
. It has stated that 50 percent of South Koreans are unemployed, 57.6 percent are infected with
tuberculosis
, and that
American
soldiers with
AIDS
are posted in the south as a deliberate policy to infect the South Korean population.
[9]
In a 31 May 1986 article, it criticized the decision that the
1988 Olympics were to be held in South Korea
, claiming that "If the Olympic Games were to be held in South Korea, many sportsmen and tourists of the world would meet death, infected with AIDS."
[12]
During the
major flooding in 2007
, the paper was unusually open, providing an extensive list of damage in the country. It stated that 20,300 homes were destroyed and "several hundred" people had died, as well as damage to "223,000 hectares of farmland, 300 bridges, 200 mining pits, 82 reservoirs, and 850 power lines."
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See also
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References
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a
b
c
Yonhap News Agency, Seoul (27 December 2002).
North Korea Handbook
. M.E. Sharpe. p. 416.
ISBN
978-0-7656-3523-5
.
Archived
from the original on 17 November 2023
. Retrieved
8 June
2024
.
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"Naenara"
.
Naenara
. 2015.
Archived
from the original on 2015-02-08
. Retrieved
2015-02-13
.
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"KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department"
(PDF)
.
North Korea Leadership Watch
. November 2009. p. 2.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on 27 May 2020
. Retrieved
27 May
2018
.
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a
b
"North Korea This Week No. 435 (8 February 2007)."
Yonhap
.
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2,000th issue of Pyongyang times
Archived
2014-10-12 at the
Wayback Machine
.
Korean Central News Agency
. 2 March 1999.
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"Pyongyang Times". MapXL Inc.
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"Korean Studies: Newspapers"
. George Washington University.
Archived
from the original on 8 December 2015
. Retrieved
30 November
2015
.
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Wee, Teo Cheng (1 May 2006).
Passage to Pyongyang: Key information
. Asiaone Travel /
The Straits Times
.
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a
b
c
Andrew Holloway (2003).
A Year in Pyongyang
. Published by Aidan Foster-Carter. Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea, Leeds University.
OCLC
824133830
. Archived from
the original
on 2009-04-05
. Retrieved
2009-07-26
.
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Bloomfield, Steve (25 April 2004).
How news broke in Pyongyang - silently
Archived
2023-01-07 at the
Wayback Machine
.
The Independent
.
[
dead link
]
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Lister, Richard (28 October 2000).
Life in Pyongyang
Archived
2006-11-07 at the
Wayback Machine
.
BBC News
.
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Senn, Alfred Erich (1999).
Power, politics, and the Olympic Games.
Human Kinetics. p. 221.
ISBN
978-0-88011-958-0
.
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Johnson, Tim (3 September 2007).
North Korea opens up, a little
Archived
2009-04-18 at the
Wayback Machine
.
The McClatchy Company
.
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Watts, Jonathan (3 September 2007).
New paint and MP3 players: Pyongyang's nuclear dividend
Archived
2017-09-07 at the
Wayback Machine
.
The Guardian
.
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