Vantage Point: Developments in North Korea
Vantage Point: Developments in North Korea was an English-language magazine entirely focused on North Korean news and analysis, published monthly between 1978 and 2016. It was published by the South Korean Naewoe News Agency and later by the Yonhap News Agency. Scope and readership Vantage Point provided news coverage and analysis on political, social, and economic developments in North Korea. It was mainly used as a source for researchers on North Korean affairs. History Vantage Point began to be published in 1978. It was the most prominent periodical created by the Naewoe News Agency. This agency was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid-1970s, and tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoare, Naowoe's publications became "less partisan after the late 1980s and are often useful source of information on North Korea". In 1999 Naewoe merged with Yonhap News Agency, with materials on North Korea continued to be "distributed for free as part of the government's propaganda effort". According to the U.S. Library of Congress "Originally