Foreign Languages Publishing House | |
![]() FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE - PYONGYANG, KOREA | |
Korean name | |
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Chosŏn'gŭl | 외국문출판사 |
Hancha | 外國文出版社 |
Revised Romanization | Oegungmun-chulpansa |
McCune–Reischauer | Oegungmun-ch'ulp'ansa |
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. [1] 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. Its was founded at December 10,1949. [2]
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. [3]
Foreign Languages Publishing House maintains the Naenara and Publications of the DPRK web portals, [4] [5] and publishes the periodicals Korea , Korea Today , Foreign Trade of the DPRK ,and the newspaper Pyongyang Times . [3]
Foreign Languages Publishing House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games. [6]