Rimjingang

Rimjingang is a Japanese magazine about North Korea, the bimonthly published since November 2007. It is named after the Rimjin input ( in South Korea Imjin - gang ), a river that flows from North to South Korea. The magazine was founded by Choi Jin -i, a South Korean North Korean origin, in collaboration with the Japanese publishing house Asia Press ( Tokyo). But Choi stepped out of the project after the fourth edition.

Rimjingang to make available objective information about their country, and abroad, information from North Korea North Koreans. Work North Korean citizens who have completed a training journalists in the People's Republic of China for the newspaper. They must keep their activities before the authorities of North Korea's secret. Since April 2007, there is also a Japanese language edition. A relatively costly issue will be published in English in October 2010. On the website of the journal content in English, Japanese and Korean languages ​​are offered. In North Korea, there are currently around ten people worked in journalism for Rimjingang.