South Korea plans to expand public access to North Korea’s primary state newspaper at designated facilities this year, Seoul’s unification ministry announced on Friday. 

The ministry outlined its plans in its new year work report to President Yoon Suk-yeol, alongside other plans such as updating the country’s three-decade-old unification roadmap. 

“We will first make a more detailed plan on the topic area, scale and methods of opening up North Korean newspapers and broadcasts” to the South Korean public this year, and pursue a beta version project that makes Rodong Sinmun accessible to the public first, the report stated. 

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