The Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (), also known as the Korean Central Broadcasting Committee and Korean Central Broadcasting (), is a state-owned broadcaster of

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 ...

. The committee is under the

Cabinet of North Korea The Cabinet of North Korea (''Naegak'') is, according to the Constitution of North Korea, the administrative and executive body and a general state-management organ in the Government of North Korea. The Cabinet's principal newspaper is ''Minju C ...

, but its personnel is chosen and appointed by 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 ...

(PAD) 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 ...

. The PAD also assigns tasks to the committee.

Hwang Yong-bo Huang or Hwang may refer to: Location * Huang County, former county in Shandong, China, current Longkou City * Yellow River, or Huang River, in China * Huangshan, mountain range in Anhui, China * Huang (state), state in ancient China. * Hwang Riv ...

is the chairman of the committee. The committee is base in Chonsung-dong,

Moranbong District Moranbong-guyŏk (), or the Moranbong District, is one of the 18 guyŏk which constitute the capital city of Pyongyang, North Korea. It is located north of Chung-guyok, the city's central district, and is bordered to the north by Sosong-guyok, Soso ...

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 ...

. It is a member of the

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. The committee has a sports team in the annual

Paektusan Prize Games of Civil Servants Paektu Mountain (), also known as Baekdu Mountain and in China as Changbai Mountain ( zh, s=长白山, t=長白山; Manchu language, Manchu: Golmin Šanggiyan Alin), is an active volcano, active stratovolcano on the China–North Korea border ...

Services

All three major television stations and 200 radio stations are controlled by the committee. Only the Pyongyang FM Broadcasting Station, Pyongyang Broadcasting Station, and the

Voice of National Salvation The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production i ...

under the

United Front Department The United Front Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (UFD, ) is a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) tasked with relations with South Korea. It conducts propaganda operations and espionage and manage ...

of the

instead. The committee also controls the

Korean Central News Agency The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the state news agency of North Korea. The agency portrays the views of the North Korean government for both domestic and foreign consumption. It was established on December 5, 1946 and now features onlin ...

Television

Korean Central Television Korean Central Television (KCTV; ) is a television service operated by the Korean Central Broadcasting Committee, a state-owned broadcaster in North Korea. It is broadcast terrestrially via the Pyongyang TV Tower in Moranbong-guyok, Pyongy ...

Radio

Korean Central Broadcasting Station The Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS) () is a domestic radio service operated by the Korean Central Broadcasting Committee, a state-owned broadcaster in North Korea. History KCBS was established on 14 October 1945 as Pyongyang Broadca ...

(domestic radio network) * Third Broadcast (

cable radio Cable radio or cable FM is a concept similar to that of cable television, bringing radio broadcasting into homes and businesses via coaxial cable. It is generally used for the same reason as cable TV was in its early days when it was "community ...

network used for sensitive public announcements) *

Voice of Korea Voice of Korea () is the international broadcasting service of North Korea. It broadcasts primarily information in Chinese, Spanish, German, English, French, Russian, Japanese and Arabic. Until 2002 it was known as Radio Pyongyang. The inter ...

Obtaining schedules

Schedules are published in the ''

Rodong Sinmun ''Rodong Sinmun'' (; ) is a North Korean newspaper that serves as the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. It was first published on November 1, 1945, as ''Chŏngro'' (), serving as a communication channel ...

'', ''

Minju Choson ''Minju Choson'' () is a state-run North Korean government newspaper. It is published in Pyongyang. It was started in 1945. It is the principal newspaper of the Cabinet of North Korea and the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. ...

'', ''

Pyongyang Sinmun ''Pyongyang Sinmun'' (, ''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 ...

'' and ''

Rimjingang ''Rimjingang'' (or Rimjin-gang) is a North Korean magazine published by Asia Press which is based in Osaka, Japan. About In 2007, Asia Press began publishing a magazine entitled ''Rimjin-gang: News from Inside North Korea'' in Korean and Japa ...

''.

Notable anchors

Ri Chun-hee Ri Chun-hee (also romanized as Ri Chun Hee or Ri Chun Hui ; born 8 July 1943) is a North Korean news presenter for North Korean broadcaster Korean Central Television. She is most notable for her characteristic emotional and sometimes vitriolic t ...

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* {{Official website, http://www.gnu.rep.kp/ Mass media in Pyongyang North Korean propaganda organizations Publicly funded broadcasters Korean-language television stations Mass media companies established in 1945 1945 establishments in Korea Television channels and stations established in 1953 North Korean entities subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions