Pyongyang Sinmun

Pyongyang Sinmun
TypeDaily newspaper
FounderKim Il Sung
PublisherWorkers' Party of Korea Pyongyang Municipal Committee
Editor-in-chief
Song Rak-gyun
Launched1 June 1957
LanguageKorean
CityPyongyang
CountryNorth Korea
Circulation4.3 million (as of 2002)
Sister newspapers
The Pyongyang Times

Pyongyang Sinmun (Korean: 평양신문; Hancha: 平壤新聞, Pyongyang News) is a North Korean newspaper founded on 1 June 1957 by Kim Il Sung. It launched an online version on 1 January 2005. It is published by the Workers' Party of Korea Pyongyang Municipal Committee six times per week under the editorship of Song Rak-gyun. Although technically a local newspaper, it is distributed nationwide and stories cover news from other regions as well. The print is four pages. It has a circulation of 4.3 million. The Pyongyang Times is its foreign language edition.

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References

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