RoK journalists visit People’s Army Newspaper

PANO – The visiting delegation of the Journalists' Association of the Republic of Korea (JAK) today called at the People’s Army Newspaper.

Senior Colonel Phung Kim Lan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Army Newspaper, briefed the RoK guests on the newspaper’s 65-year development.

Notably, the People’s Army Newspaper has become one of the country’s leading political newspapers, making considerable contributions to the cause of national construction and defence.

Welcoming the guests

With four publications, the newspaper has successfully ensured information orientation for the public and effectively popularized the cause of building a revolutionary, regular, elite and gradually modernized army.

For these achievements, the Army Newspaper was honoured to receive many noble orders and titles by the Party, State and Army, including the “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” title and the “Labor Hero Order in the new context”.

Colonel Phung Kim Lan wished the RoK journalists success for their visit this time.  For his part, JAK President Park Chong Ryul laid stress on the two-decade-long relationship between the journalists’ associations of Vietnam and the RoK as well as the similarities between the two countries. He said their visit to the newspaper would bring them specialized experience, and invited representatives of the People’s Army Newspaper to the RoK at an appropriate time in the future.