Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)

{{Short description|North Korean publisher}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}

{{Infobox Korean name

| hangul =외국문출판사

| hanja =外國文出版社

| rr =Oegungmun-chulpansa

| mr =Oegungmun-ch'ulp'ansa

| koreanipa =

| context =north

| image =Foreign Languages Publishing House.png

| caption =FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE - PYONGYANG, KOREA

}}

The Foreign Languages Publishing House (FLPH) is the central North Korean publishing bureau of foreign-language documents, located in the Potonggang-guyok of Pyongyang, North Korea.{{cite web | url=http://geocommons.com/overlays/13207.atom | title=Government Offices, North Korea Uncovered | accessdate=29 October 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 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. Its was founded at December 10, 1949.{{Cite web |title=Foreign language press group 50 years old |url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9912/news12/10.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010912002929/www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9912/news12/10.htm |archive-date=12 September 2001}}

The publishing house is under the control of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, which also makes decisions concerning its staff.{{Cite web | title = KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department | work = North Korea Leadership Watch | date = November 2009 | accessdate = 27 May 2018 | url = https://nkleadershipwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kwppropagandaandagitationdepartment.pdf#page=2 | page = 2 | archive-date = 27 May 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200527061718/https://nkleadershipwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kwppropagandaandagitationdepartment.pdf#page=2 | url-status = live }}

Foreign Languages Publishing House maintains the Naenara and Publications of the DPRK web portals,{{Cite web | title = Naenara | date = 2017 | accessdate = 16 May 2017 | url = http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/ | publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House | archive-date = 21 August 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190821230313/http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/ | url-status = dead }}{{Cite web | title = Publications of the DPRK | accessdate = 16 March 2018 | url = http://www.korean-books.com.kp/en/ | publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House | archive-date = 3 February 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180203141509/http://korean-books.com.kp/en/ | url-status = live }} and publishes the periodicals {{ill|Korea (magazine)|ko|조선 (잡지)|lt=Korea}}, Korea Today, Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and the newspaper Pyongyang Times.

Foreign Languages Publishing House has a sports team in the Paektusan Prize civil servants games.{{Cite web | title = Paektusan Prize civil servants games continue | author = Ri Sung-ik | work=The Pyongyang Times | date = 9 February 2017 | accessdate = 16 May 2017 | url = http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/order/pytimes/?page=Sports&no=23680 }}