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The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the state news agency of North Korea. The KCNA was established on December 5, 1946. The agency publishes the views of the North Korean government for foreign news outlets to consume and cite. According to its website, the KCNA "speaks for the Workers' Party of Korea and the [North Korean] government".
North Korea has 12 principal newspapers and 20 major periodicals, all published in Pyongyang. [37] Foreign newspapers are not sold on the streets of the capital. [38] Every year, North Korean press jointly publishes a New Year editorial, also broadcast by KCNA, which regularly attracts the attention of the international news media. [39] [40 ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
Three YouTube channels seen as linked to North Korea's state media have been taken down, a spokesperson for the U.S. video hosting site said on Tuesday, after South Korean regulators blocked them ...
It was the first website established by North Korea. [6] In August 2010, Uriminzokkiri launched YouTube, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter) accounts in an effort to improve North Korea's image around the world. [7] Uriminzokkiri maintains an account on the Chinese video platform Youku, and has uploaded more than 14,000 videos. [citation needed]
Kim, 40, alleged that the US, South Korea and Japan have formed a “nuclear military bloc for aggression” and that the three allies are pushing anti-communism, state media outlet Korean Central ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea claims that about 800,000 of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation's military to fight against the United States, North Korea's state newspaper ...
Access to North Korea by foreign news media is severely restricted by the North Korean government. There are very few full-time correspondents in the country. In the absence of on-the-spot reportage, a key source of information about North Korea is the testimony of defectors , but the defectors are not necessarily reliable for several reasons.