Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the state-run news agency operated by the North Korean government of Kim Jong-un. It is controlled by the Workers' Party of Korea, the only political party in North Korea (the country is formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK). The KCNA is in charge of uniform delivery of news and other information to the mass media of the country including newspapers, radio and TV stations. The agency was founded in 1946.

This news agency is owned by the government of North Korean.

The website is presented in the English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese languages.

Websites

Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website
All local news media in Pyongyang, North Korea

Ratings

Content:     Awful (6 votes)
Political Bias:   Leans Left (6 votes)
Credibility:   Very Low (6 votes)

News

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Kim Jong Un Orders Pet Dogs Rounded Up in Pyongyang
-- August 17, 2020: The North Korean dictator has declared pet dogs a symbol of capitalist 'decadence' and ordered them to be rounded up, the Daily Mail in London reported. Pet owners fear they will be sold to one of a number of dedicated dog restaurants in Pyongyang. Julian Ryall wrote on August 17, 2020: North Koreans are ordered to hand over 'decadent and bourgeois' pet dogs for 'restaurant meat' as the country is rocked by food shortages
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, August 18, 2020

American Journalists Charged With Spying Go On Trial in North Korea
-- Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, are about to go on trial in North Korea, charged with spying. Ling and Lee were taken into custody on March 17, 2009, and are reporters for Current TV. CNN reported that the families of the two women are lobbying the media before journalists' North Korean trial: "Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for CNN, added: "Please help us urge both our government and...

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