<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Dear colleagues,<BR>
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The below from KCNA today caught my eye.<BR>
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This looks to be a more convenient way to access <BR>
a wider range of North Korean periodicals <BR>
than any known to me hitherto. (They evidently <BR>
want paying, so let's hope prices are reasonable.)<BR>
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Unfortunately KCNA neglected to give the URL, or any<BR>
other contact details. A desultory Google brought no joy.<BR>
There seems to be no mention at www.kcna.co.jp<BR>
- although this is surely from the same stable.<BR>
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So please could some kind soul tell us where to find KPM?<BR>
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Happy new dog to one and all!<BR>
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Aidan<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=11 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>KPM Inaugurated in Japan<BR>
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</B>Tokyo, February 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- The Korean Media Co., Ltd, located in Tokyo inaugurated the Korean Press Media (KPM) and started its operation from January 15 through its Internet network. The KPM comprises such daily newspapers as Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson, News of Pyongyang Bureau of Choson Sinbo, weekly newspapers Thongil Sinbo, Literature and Pyongyang Times (English), such periodicals as monthly magazine Chollima, Korean Literature, Korean Arts, Youth Literature and Juvenile Literature, quarterly newspapers Gazette of Kim Il Sung University (philosophy, economics, history, law and linguistics), Science of History, Study of Economy, Study of Political Law, Study of Philosophy, Korean Linguistics, National Cultural Heritage and Study of Cultured Korean Language. <BR>
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The KPM attracts attention of foreign mass media and public as it edits news items in such a way as to enable their subscribers to read them quickly with interest as required by the IT age, while protecting the property rights of the media of the DPRK. <BR>
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The KPM has a plan to provide its services to all parts of the world on a payment condition. It will sign contracts with foreign media and research institutions and increase its dispatch of information so as to ensure a speedy and accurate introduction of the true picture of the DPRK making a dynamic advance towards a great prosperous powerful nation and the reunification of Korea.<BR>
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