Seoul, January 5, 2022 – Daily NK, a South Korea-based news agency that reports on North Korea, announced today that it is entering into a content partnership with Factiva, a business intelligence platform, to provide the service with trusted news content regarding North Korea.
The partnership will make it easier for global Factiva subscribers to access content from Daily NK, a trusted source of news and information from within North Korea.
Factiva is a leading, global collection of licensed news, web content and company data. Factiva has 33,000 sources from nearly every country worldwide, in 29 languages. It is owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Daily NK provides in-depth coverage of North Korean society through a network of sources in the country. The organization focuses particularly on North Korean economic issues, and
publishes market prices of various commodities on a bi-weekly basis.
Daily NK Editor-in-Chief Lee Sang Yong said, “Given the lack of independent media in North
Korea, there is immense difficulty in understanding what is going on in the country. In
collaboration with Factiva, we hope to continue providing accurate information from within the country to help researchers, analysts, journalists, businesspeople, and foreign policymakers better understand North Korea.”
