Multi-lingual North Korean magazine
Korea Today Vice-Director and Editor-in-Chief Han Pong Chan[ 1] Former editors Son Din-fa Categories current affairs ,[ 1] propagandaFrequency 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 www .korean-books .com .kp /en /search /?page=periodic-magazine ISSN 0454-4072 OCLC 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]
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^ a b Korea Today (Journal, magazine, 1959) . OCLC 8797015 .
^ a b "Periodicals of DPRK" . KCNA. 27 March 1997. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2015 .
^ a b 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 .
^ a b 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 (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 . Vol. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2015 .
^ Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (26 June 2014). "Threatening war over a Seth Rogen movie? Business as usual for North Korea" . Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2015 .