Foreign Languages Publishing House
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. 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.
Foreign Languages Publishing House
- Founded
- 1949
- Headquarters
- North Korea
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Overview
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. House maintains the Naenara and Publications of the DPRK web portals, and publishes the periodicals Korea, Korea Today, Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and the newspaper Pyongyang Times. House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games.
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Key facts
• Hangul — ^외국문_출판사 • Hanja — 外國文出版社
Institutional history
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Institutional history
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1949
Foreign Languages Publishing House established.
1949
Foreign Languages Publishing House is recorded from 1949.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 5003424-8, Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi).
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1531161: Foreign Languages Publishing House
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- 1.Government Offices, North Korea Uncovered. October 2023.
- 2.Foreign language press group 50 years old.
- 3.KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department. North Korea Leadership Watch. 2. November 2009.
- 4.Foreign Languages Publishing House. Naenara. 2017.
- 5.Foreign Languages Publishing House. Publications of the DPRK.
- 6.Ri Sung-ik. Paektusan Prize civil servants games continue. The Pyongyang Times. 9 February 2017.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 5003424-8, Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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