Foreign Languages Publishing House
For the Soviet publisher, see Foreign Languages Publishing House (Soviet Union).
This article is about the North Korean publisher. For similarly-named publisher in China, see Foreign Languages Press.
The Foreign Languages Publishing House is the central North Korean publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the Potonggang District 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.
References
- ↑ "Government Offices, North Korea Uncovered". Retrieved 29 October 2013.
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.
- Korean Publication – N. Korean official outlet
- North Korea Books – Canadian firm selling North Korean literature
See also
- Progress Publishers, a Soviet era printing house which published books and pamphlets in English on a wide range of topics.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.