Belarusian Telegraph Agency Belarusian Telegraph Agency The Belarusian Telegraph Agency or BelTA (, , БелТА) is the state-owned national news agency of the Republic of Belarus. It operates in Russian, Belarusian, English, German and Spanish languages. The agency was founded on December 23, 1918. During the Soviet times BelTA cooperated with the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), although it was legally independent of it. After the USSR seized to exist in 1991, BelTA has been the national news agency of Belarus. It transmits over a hundred daily reports, and provides information to other news agencies of Commonwealth of Independent States members
Korean Central News Agency accessed only through the government's authorization. As well as serving as a news agency, it also produces summaries of world news to North Korean officials. It is also alleged to conduct clandestine intelligence collection. Based in the capital Pyongyang, at 1 Potonggang-dong, Potonggang District, KCNA has bureaus in several municipalities. KCNA also has press exchange agreements with around 46 foreign news agencies, including South Korea's Yonhap. Its closest partners, however, are Itar-Tass and Xinhua News Agency. KCNA has correspondents and bureaus in six countries, including Russia and China. KCNA also collaborates with Reuters and the Associated Press, the latter of