Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)

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]

Foreign Languages Publishing House
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE - PYONGYANG, KOREA
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	외국문출판사
Hancha	外國文出版社
Revised Romanization	Oegungmun-chulpansa
McCune–Reischauer	Oegungmun-ch'ulp'ansa

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 [ko], 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]

See also

• North Korea portal

• Foreign Languages Publishing House (Soviet Union), Moscow – similar publisher in Soviet Union
• Foreign Languages Press, Beijing – similar publisher in China
• Foreign Languages Publishing House (Vietnam), Hanoi – similar publisher in Vietnam which is now known as Thế Giới Publishers
• Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House
• Progress Publishers – a Soviet printing house which published books and pamphlets in English on a wide range of topics