The BBC World Service is to launch regular news programmes for North Korea as part of the biggest expansion of its journalism since the 1940s. Korean is one of 11 new language services included in proposals designed to double the number of people who can access BBC services around the world to 500 million by 2022, when the World Service will be 100 years old. “The BBC World Service is a jewel in the crown – for the BBC and for Britain. A number of foreign broadcasters already target the country, including South Korea’s KBS and the US-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Francesca Unsworth, director of the World Service, said: “Through war, revolution and global change, people around the world have relied on the World Service for independent, trusted, impartial news.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2016 00:00 UTC