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{{Short description|North Korean state news agency}}
{{Redirect|KCNA|the radio station in Oregon|KCNA (FM)|the radio station in Arizona|KIKX (Arizona)}}
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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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| num_employees = 800
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| website = {{URL|http://www.kcna.kp/en|kcna.kp}}
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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==
KCNA works under the [[Korean Central Broadcasting Committee]], through which it is ultimately controlled by the [[Workers' Party of Korea]]'s [[Propaganda and Agitation Department]].<ref>{{Cite web | title = KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department | work = North Korea Leadership Watch | date = November 2009 | access-date = 27 May 2018 | url = https://nkleadershipwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kwppropagandaandagitationdepartment.pdf | pages=1–2}}</ref> In December 1996, KCNA began publishing its news articles on the [[Internet]] with its [[web server]] located in [[Japan]]. Since October 2010, stories have been published on a new site, controlled from [[Pyongyang]], and output has been significantly increased to include world stories with no specific link to North Korea<ref>{{cite news|title=KCNA significantly increasing output|url=http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/03/04/kcna-significantly-increasing-output/|date=March 4, 2011|publisher=[[North Korea Tech]]}}</ref> as well as news from countries that have strong DPRK ties.
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 book |script-title=ko:조선중앙년감 |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=873700160 |access-date=17 August 2022 |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/873700160 }}</ref> It is also alleged to conduct clandestine intelligence collection.<ref>Henderson, Robert (2003). ''Brassey's International Intelligence Yearbook: 2003 Edition.'' Brassey's. p. 292. {{ISBN|978-1-57488-550-7}}.</ref>
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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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* 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 Sung receives "2,910 a year, 243 a month and 8 a day."<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2003/200304/news04/09.htm#1 Many gifts to Kim Il Sung] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412155900/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2003/200304/news04/09.htm |date=April 12, 2009 }}, KCNA, April 8, 2003.</ref>
* 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 Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un by enlarging their names to appear larger than the rest of the text.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=Martyn|title=State websites raise name of Kim Jong Un|url=https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/25/state-websites-raise-name-of-kim-jong-un|website=[[North Korea Tech]]|publisher=Martyn Williams|access-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419000753/https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/25/state-websites-raise-name-of-kim-jong-un|archive-date=19 April 2017|language=en-us|date=25 December 2011}}</ref>
*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).
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The 2012 joint editorial edition, the first under Kim Jong Un's leadership, started with a great tribute to Kim Jong Il and aside from recurring calls for improving inter-Korean relations and for the fulfillment of the October 4 Declaration of 2007, also called on the whole nation to give priority to do Kim Jong Il's 2012 mission of [[Strong and Prosperous Nation]], continue his and his father Kim Il Sung's legacies to the entire country and the socialist cause, and to build up and encourage the various sectors that compose the nation to become contributors to national progress in all areas at all costs.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
This practice ended in 2013 when Kim Jong Un delivered the first New Year speech on television in 19 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes rare new year speech |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=1 January 2013 |access-date=8 November 2021 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20880301 }}</ref>
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