The Korea Times, an English-language South Korean newspaper, reports that Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s ruling party, “has launched an English-language website in an apparent attempt to expand its reach in the international community.” While the North Korean government has published a weekly tabloid in English, The Pyongyang Times, since 1965, the English-language edition of the daily paper is a new initiative, and possibly connected with the transition of power from Kim Jong-il to his son, Kim Jong-un.
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