Type Daily newspaper Language Korean Country North Korea | Launched 1 June 1957 City Pyongyang | |
Publisher Workers' Party of Korea Pyongyang Municipal Committee | ||
Pyongyang Sinmun (Korean: 평양신문, '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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