Foreign Languages Publishing House
Encyclopedia
Foreign Languages Publishing House is the central DPRK publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the Potonggang District of Pyongyang, North Korea
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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.
Similar publishing houses also existed in the Soviet Union and in China during the Stalin and Mao Zedong periods, respectively. Certain Soviet and Chinese works were published by the Foreign Languages Publishing Houses of those nations.
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
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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.
Similar publishing houses also existed in the Soviet Union and in China during the Stalin and Mao Zedong periods, respectively. Certain Soviet and Chinese works were published by the Foreign Languages Publishing Houses of those nations.
External links
- A Year in Pyongyang, An autobiography of a foreign reviser, Andrew Holloway is available online.
- Foreign Languages Publishing House – electronic documents published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang.
- http://175.45.176.14/en/book/reading.php DPRK official outlet
- Korean Publication – N. Korean official outlet
- North Korea Books – Canadian firm selling North Korean literature