The Foreign Languages Publishing House (FLPH) is the central

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

n publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the

Potonggang-guyok Potonggang-guyok is one of the 18 districts, or guyok, of Pyongyang, North Korea. It is most famous as the location of the Ryugyong Hotel. It is named after the Pothong River (literally "the simple river"), which serves as the district's border on ...

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populatio ...

, North Korea. 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. The publishing house is under the control of the

Propaganda and Agitation Department The Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD, ), officially translated as the Publicity and Information Department, is a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) tasked with coordinating the creation and dissemina ...

of the

Workers' Party of Korea The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of ...

, which also makes decisions concerning its staff. Foreign Languages Publishing House maintains the

Naenara Naenara () is the official web portal of the North Korean government. It was the first website in North Korea, and was created in 1996. The portal's categories include politics, tourism, music, foreign trade, arts, press, information technology ...

and Publications of the DPRK web portals, and publishes the periodicals ', '' Korea Today'', ''

Foreign Trade of the DPRK ''Foreign Trade of the DPRK'' is a North Korean magazine. It covers North Korean companies that are looking to export their products and introduces their contact details. The magazine is affiliated with the North Korean Committee for the Promo ...

'', and the newspaper ''

Pyongyang Times ''The Pyongyang Times'' is a weekly state-controlled English and French-language newspaper published in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, by the Foreign Languages Publishing House. It is the foreign-language edition of the '' Pyongyang Sin ...

''. Foreign Languages Publishing House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games.

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Publications for download
at ''Publications of the DPRK''
Naenara

, 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 State publishers Publishing companies of North Korea Political book publishing companies Mass media in Pyongyang State media {{Publish-company-stub

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