Korean Central News Agency

The Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA short ), established on December 5, 1946, is the central state news agency of North Korea. KCNA is censored like all North Korean state media and provides North Korea and its government for propaganda purposes only positive dar. Since its inception, KCNA based in Pyongyang.

The KCNA news and spread out over North Korea as well as official statements of the government and the Party of Labour of Korea. Also comments or editorials from the party newspaper Rodong Sinmun published Frequently, the same official statements come handy.

Content, the KCNA their focus on party news and foreign policy messages, especially

  • The activities of the respective Secretary-General and Chairman of the party, currently Kim Jong-un
  • Summary of articles leading newspapers of North Korea
  • Anniversaries of events in the party's history and in the life of their leader Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong- il and Kim Jong-un
  • Activities of foreign organizations who are close to the Workers' Party of Korea, for example, check out this publication in North Korea and Kim Jong-il, Kim Il-sung's works abroad
  • Diplomatic contacts with foreign countries by North Korea, for example, ministerial meetings, flower basket handovers and congratulatory
  • Foreign policy events that affect North Korea directly. These are, for example, messages concerning the situation in the process of rapprochement between North and South Korea as well as the existing view from North Korean threat by the United States and Japan.

Internet

Since October 2010, the KCNA spread their messages in five languages ​​on a website that uses the North Korean top-level domain and the server to be operated in North Korea. On the side, brief summaries of articles from the North Korean press are to be found. Other categories on politics, economics and culture are still under construction. For some time an archive search is also possible.

On another site that is hosted in Japan, an archive of past messages from the KCNA is created. This archive contains no images or graphics and was temporarily available in three languages ​​:

  • Korean: Usually six messages a day. The archive includes articles from 1 January 1998
  • English: usually ten to twelve messages daily. The archive includes articles from the December 2, 1996
  • Spanish: Since the end of 2002 are usually archived in the English Archives two to four messages a day in Spanish.

The English messages appear, with the exception of Sundays, usually daily.

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