Agence France Presse says a new bureau in Pyongyang will help fulfill its role to "be present everywhere in the world".

Chairman Emmanuel Hoog says it will help make their news mission "as complete as possible, in particular through images".

The new North Korean bureau will produce text, photo and video, and be operational in the first half of 2016.

It will join AFP's existing network of 200 bureaux in 150 countries. AFP is the second of the major global news agencies to open a bureau in Pyongyang, where few foreign media organisations are present.

AFP has 2326 staff spread across "almost every country", and delivers video, text, photos, multimedia and graphics.