Rimjingang
| Rimjingang | |
|---|---|
| Japanese name | |
| Kanji | リ ム ジ ン ガ ン |
| Rōmaji after Hepburn | Rimujingan |
| Korean name | |
| Hangeul | 림진강 |
| Hanja | 臨 津 江 |
| Revised Romanization | Rimjin gang |
| McCune-Reischauer | Rimjin'gang |
Rimjingang is a Japanese magazine about North Korea that has been published every two months since November 2007. It is named after the Rimjin-gang ( Imjin-gang in South Korea ), a river that flows from North to South Korea . The magazine was founded by Choi Jin-i , a South Korean of North Korean origin, in collaboration with the Japanese publishing house Asia Press ( Tokyo ). Choi resigned from the project after the fourth edition.
Rimjingang aims to provide North Koreans with objective information about their country as well as information from North Korea abroad. North Korean citizens who have completed journalism training in the People's Republic of China work for the newspaper . In doing so, they must keep their activities secret from the North Korean state organs. Since April 2007 there is also a Japanese-language edition. A relatively expensive edition will appear in English in October 2010. The magazine's website has content in English , Japanese, and Korean . In North Korea, around ten people are currently working as a journalist for Rimjingang.
Web links
- Rimjingang website (English)
- Undercover journos risking lives in N Korea . ABC dated November 22, 2007
- First Underground DPRK Journal Launched (PDF file; 54 kB) on wilsoncenter.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daily NK : rimjingang Published Its First Japanese Edition (English) of 5 April of 2008.