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{{Short description|North Korean state news agency}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Korean Central News Agency
| logo = Logo of the Korean Central News Agency (new).svg
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| image = KCNA English homepage.jpg
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| image_caption = Screenshot of KCNA website
| native_name =
| hangul = 조선중앙통신 / 조선통신사▼
| hanja = 朝鮮中央通信 / 朝鮮通信社▼
| rr = Joseon Jungangtongsin / Joseon Tongsinsa▼
| mr = Chosŏn Chungangt'ongsin / Chosŏn T'ongsinsa▼
| context = north▼
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| native_name_lang = <!-- Use ISO 639-1 code, e.g. "fr" for French. For multiple names in different languages, use {{lang|[code]|[name]}}. -->
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| type = [[State-owned enterprise|State-owned]]
| industry = [[News agency]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1946|12|05
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| hq_location = 1 [[Potonggang-dong]], [[Potonggang District]]
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| services = Media
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| num_employees = 800
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| website = {{URL|http://www.kcna.kp/en|kcna.kp}}
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{{Infobox Korean
▲| hangul = 조선중앙통신 / 조선통신사
The '''Korean Central News Agency''' ('''KCNA''') is the [[State media|state]] [[news agency]] of [[North Korea]]. The agency portrays the views of the [[Government of North Korea|North Korean government]] for both domestic and foreign consumption. It was established on December 5, 1946 and now features online coverage.<ref name="Shrivastava2007">{{cite book|last=Shrivastava|first=K. M.|title=News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHujEBLJcvIC&pg=PA211|year=2007|publisher=New Dawn Press Group|location=Elgin|isbn=978-1-932705-67-6|page=211}}</ref>▼
▲| hanja = 朝鮮中央通信 / 朝鮮通信社
▲| rr = Joseon Jungangtongsin / Joseon Tongsinsa
▲| mr = Chosŏn Chungangt'ongsin / Chosŏn T'ongsinsa
▲| context = north
| lk =
▲}}
▲The '''Korean Central News Agency''' ('''KCNA''') is the [[State media|state]] [[news agency]] of [[North Korea]].<ref name="Hoare2012"/><ref>{{cite web |title=North Korea |url=https://rsf.org/en/country/north-korea |website=Reporters Without Borders|date=July 6, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In North Korea, the state-run news agency is the weapon of choice |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-north-korea-the-news-agency-is-the-weapon-of-choice/2013/04/28/88f3003e-aff2-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html |agency=Washington Post |date=April 28, 2013}}</ref> The agency portrays the views of the [[Government of North Korea|North Korean government]] for both domestic and foreign consumption. It was established on December 5, 1946, and now features online coverage.<ref name="Shrivastava2007">{{cite book|last=Shrivastava|first=K. M.|title=News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHujEBLJcvIC&pg=PA211|year=2007|publisher=New Dawn Press Group|location=Elgin|isbn=978-1-932705-67-6|page=211}}</ref>
==Organization==
In addition to [[Korean language|Korean]], KCNA releases news translated into [[English language|English]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Access to its website, along with other North Korean news sites, [[North Korean websites banned in South Korea|has been blocked by South Korea]] since 2004 and can be accessed only through the government's authorization.<ref name=ft-20100401>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d77d855e-3d26-11df-b81b-00144feabdc0.html |title=Sinking underlines South Korean view of state as monster |author=Christian Oliver |date=April 1, 2010 |publisher=[[Financial Times]] |location=London |access-date=April 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144941/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d77d855e-3d26-11df-b81b-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=September 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref>[http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/05/27/65/0401000000AEN20090527010500325F.HTML North Korea Newsletter No. 56 (May 28, 2009)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914150359/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/05/27/65/0401000000AEN20090527010500325F.HTML |date=September 14, 2011 }}. [[Yonhap]]. May 28, 2009.</ref> As well as serving as a news agency, it also produces summaries of world news to North Korean officials and publishes the ''{{ill|Korean Central Yearbook|ko|조선중앙년감}}''.<ref name="Hoare2012"/><ref name=oananews/><ref>{{Cite
Based in the capital [[Pyongyang]], at 1 [[Potonggang-dong]], [[Potonggang District]],{{sfn|Pares|2005|p=188}} KCNA has bureaus in several municipalities.<ref name="Hoare2012">{{cite book|last=Hoare|first=James E.|title=Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rh5h4bZgkhEC&pg=PA231|year=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-8108-7987-4|page=231|chapter=Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)}}</ref> KCNA also has press exchange agreements with around 46 foreign news agencies,{{sfn|Pares|2005|p=}}{{Page needed|date=September 2015}} including [[South Korea]]'s [[Yonhap]].<ref>[http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/AboutUs/index.html About Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331173904/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Aboutus/index.html |date=March 31, 2008 }}, ''Yonhap''.</ref> Its closest partners, however, are [[
According to its website, KCNA "speaks for the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government". The agency has been described as the "official organ."<ref>Quick, A. C. (2003). ''World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide.'' (2nd eds.) Gale. {{ISBN|978-0-7876-5584-6}}.</ref> In June 1964 on one of his first official activities, [[Kim Jong
A talk given to officials at KCNA on June 12, 1964, outlines the function of the news agency:
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Under the principle and guideline on the work of ideological propaganda and agitation put by the country's ruling party, the Workers' Party of Korea, the agency generally reports only good news about the country that is intended to encourage its people and project a positive image abroad.<ref>[http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507150012.html Daily News about North Korea] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412160804/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507150012.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}. [[The Chosun Ilbo]]. July 15, 2005.</ref> Nonetheless, it has on occasion acknowledged food shortages in the country.<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/20009/news09/25.htm#7 Shortages of food in the DPRK]. KCNA. September 25, 2000.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7472833.stm Is North Korea facing famine?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321131730/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7472833.stm |date=March 21, 2009 }}, ''[[BBC News]]'', June 25, 2008.</ref> The [[Ryongchon disaster]] was also reported in April 2004, after a delay of two days.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040507234112/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FE07Dg02.html Reeling, hungry, N Korea heads to nuke talks]. ''[[Asia Times Online]]''. May 7, 2004.</ref><ref>''[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2004/200404/news04/24.htm KCNA Report on Explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430045007/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2004/200404/news04/24.htm |date=April 30, 2011 }}'', KCNA, April 24, 2004.</ref>
The Director General of KCNA is [[Kim Chang-gwang]].<ref name=oananews>{{Cite web |title=KCNA |work=OANA NEWS |access-date=17 August 2022 |url= http://www.oananews.org/agencies/KCNA }}</ref> KCNA has a sports team in the annual [[Paektusan Prize Games of Civil Servants]].<ref name="naen_TheP">{{Cite web | title = Civil servants play basketball tournament | agency = KCNA | work
==Recurring themes==
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KCNA articles generally revolve on several specific themes (examples in reference section):
* Detailing performances of cultural events, usually attended by various dignitaries.
* Decrying the actions and attitudes of the [[United States]],<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200512/news12/12.htm#2 U.S. Scenario for Preemptive Nuclear Attack on DPRK Blasted] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208140920/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200512/news12/12.htm |date=February 8, 2009 }}, KCNA, December 11, 2005.</ref> [[Japan]],<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200803/news03/19.htm#6 KCNA Blasts Fukuda Regime's Suppression of Chongryon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412184334/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200803/news03/19.htm |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, March 18, 2008.</ref> [[South Korea]]<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news08/20090108-09ee.html KCNA Blasts Lee Myung Bak Group's Anachronistic Confrontational Policy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412155935/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news08/20090108-09ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, January 8, 2009.</ref> and other nations, particularly concerning military cooperation, historical events or trade among those nations. Personal attacks on American, Japanese and South Korean leaders are
* Airing the official DPRK position on ongoing disputes with Japan over such matters as [[Chongryon]]<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2002/200205/news05/23.htm#8 Chongryon on preserving national character] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412192004/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2002/200205/news05/23.htm |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, May 21, 2002.</ref> and [[comfort women]].<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200611/news11/07.htm#3 Japanese Reactionaries' Moves to Cover up "Comfort Women" Issue under Fire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413180158/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200611/news11/07.htm |date=April 13, 2009 }}, KCNA, November 6, 2006.</ref>
* Noting the celebration of DPRK events and ideas in other countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm |title=August 27. 2009 Juche 98 |access-date=2009-08-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903203906/http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm |archive-date=September 3, 2009 }}</ref>
* Calling for the [[reunification of Korea]] under the [[Juche]] ideology.<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news09/20090109-15ee.html All Koreans Urged to Remain True to Idea of "By Our Nation Itself"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412192030/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news09/20090109-15ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, January 9, 2009.</ref><ref name=kcna>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200803/news03/19.htm#12 DPRK's Important Days Marked in Foreign Countries] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412184334/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200803/news03/19.htm |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, March 18, 2008.</ref>
* Promoting the popularity of Kim Il
* Communications, visits and gifts (it does not name the particular gift) to and from various like-minded or friendly nations.<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news09/20090109-20ee.html Floral Basket and Congratulatory Letter to Kim Jong Il from Cambodia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412160006/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news09/20090109-20ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, January 9, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news29/20081029-09ee.html Reception for FM of Myanmar and His Party] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412155930/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news29/20081029-09ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, October 29, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news29/20081029-04ee.html Chinese Art Troupe Gives Performances] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412192020/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news29/20081029-04ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, October 29, 2008.</ref> Regarding the number of gifts, KCNA claimed that former leader Kim Il
* New technological developments, such as a preservation agent for the [[Kimjongilia|Kimjongilia flower]],<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news21/20081021-12ee.html "Agent for Preserving Kimjongilia Developed"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412192015/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200810/news21/20081021-12ee.html |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, October 21, 2008.</ref> a new kind of [[pesticide]]<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200607/news07/04.htm#10 New Kind of Pesticide Developed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412155926/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200607/news07/04.htm |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, July 3, 2006.</ref> and "blood purifying" rings and bracelets [a [[quackery|quack]] remedy],<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/19.htm#13 Blood-Purifying Finger Ring] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413180129/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/19.htm |date=April 13, 2009 }}, KCNA, May 18, 2005.</ref> amongst others.
*Emphasizing the names of Kim Il
*References to institutes, groups or centres "for the study of the Juche idea". For example, a KCNA report from June 12, 2011, claimed that "The Brazilian Center for the Study of the Juche Idea was inaugurated with due ceremony at Sao Paulo University on June 4".<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201106/news12/20110612-04ee.html Brazilian Center for Study of Juche Idea Formed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506161722/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201106/news12/20110612-04ee.html |date=May 6, 2012 }}, KCNA, June 12, 2011.</ref> The article also refers to an unnamed "chairman" (who presumably presided over the ceremony), but this supposed event was not reported by a source other than KCNA as of the date of the article (eight days after the ceremony was alleged to have occurred).
===Editorial practices===
KCNA employs language, such as "traitors", "warmongers" or "human scum", for governments (especially those of South Korea and the United States), organizations and individuals
===New Year editorials===
As a tradition since 1996, KCNA, along with the three main state run newspapers in North Korea, publishes a joint New Year editorial that outlines the country's policies for the year. The editorials usually offer praise for the [[Songun|Songun policy]], the government and leadership, and encourage the growth of the nation. They are also critical of the policies of South Korea, Japan, the United States and Western governments towards the country.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5000E620090101?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=10112 North Korea issues New Year denuclearization pledge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413182818/http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5000E620090101?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=10112 |date=April 13, 2009 }}. [[Reuters]]. December 31, 2008.</ref><ref>[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/01/113_37114.html N. Korea Vows to Rebuild Economy in New Year Message] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609220142/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/01/113_37114.html |date=June 9, 2016 }}, the Korea Times, January 1, 2009.</ref>
On January 1, 2006, the agency sent out a joint-editorial from North Korea's state newspapers calling for the withdrawal of [[US Army|American troops]] from [[South Korea]].<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200601/news01/02.htm#1 "Joint New Year Editorial Issued"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524082616/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200601/news01/02.htm |date=May 24, 2013 }}, KCNA, January 1, 2006.</ref> While annual January 1 editorials are a tradition among the papers, that year's brought attention from [[Western media outlets]], by calling for a "nationwide campaign for driving out the U.S. troops".<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180301,00.html "North Korea Demands U.S. Troop Withdrawal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310202147/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C180301%2C00.html |date=March 10, 2007 }}. [[Fox News]]. December 31, 2005.</ref> The editorial made several references to [[Korean reunification]]. The 2009 editorial received similar attention, as criticism of [[United States]] policy was absent, and the admission of severe economic problems in the country. The editorial also made reference to denuclearisation on the [[Korean peninsula]], in what analysts claimed was a "hopeful" sign.<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news01/20090101-02ee.html 2009 Joint New Year Editorial Issued] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325033325/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200901/news01/20090101-02ee.html |date=March 25, 2009 }}, KCNA, January 1, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7806785.stm North Korea message is mild on US] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217211826/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7806785.stm |date=February 17, 2009 }}. [[BBC News]]. January 1, 2009.</ref> This was echoed again in its 2010 editorial, which called for an end to hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free [[Korean Peninsula]].<ref>Kim, Sam (January 1, 2010). [http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2010/01/01/73/0401000000AEN20100101002100315F.HTML N. Korea calls for end to enmity with U.S., hints at return to nuclear talks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226065139/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2010/01/01/73/0401000000AEN20100101002100315F.HTML |date=February 26, 2012 }}. [[Yonhap]].</ref>
The 2011 joint editorial edition, aside from its calls for a denuclearized Korea and for a slowdown of tensions between the two Koreas, has for the first time, mentioned the rising light industries of the DPRK, given as a reason for an upcoming upsurge in the national economy in the new year and for the achievement of the Kangsong Taeguk national mission.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
The 2012 joint editorial edition, the first under Kim Jong
This practice ended in 2013 when Kim Jong
===Censorship===
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==See also==
{{Portal|Journalism|North Korea}}
* [[Communications in North
* [[Media of North Korea]]
* [[Yonhap News Agency]], South Korean equivalent
==References==
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{{Wikinews category}}
* {{Official website}}
* [http://www.nk-news.net/search.php STALIN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024551/http://www.nk-news.net/search.php |date=November 12, 2020 }} archives (January 1996–present)
* [https://discover.dtic.mil/ Older archives] at [[Defense Technical Information Center]]
* [https://kcnawatch.co/ KCNA Watch archives] by [[NK News]]
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