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Newspaper genre cannot publish facts and realities as they are in a transparent manner. That is, the news portrayed through reports are not facts impartial but a product of ideology reconstructed with the value and belief of specific social groups. Especially, reporting matters in which the ideology of progress and conservation collide may show differences in discourse reports by the ideologies the newspaper company pursues. In Korea, where conservative discourses had governed, we see progressive discourse coexisting with conservative discourse by the late 1980s when was first published. Especially, since 1988, as the press became democratized and opened, discourses of North Korea reports consistent with anti-communism and anti-North Korean ideology reports face variation. This study aims at comparing the headlines of , , and , three representative conservative newspapers in Korea and , a progressive newspaper regarding North Korea related reports so that it can check if differences exist among “discourse reporting.” Furthermore, the study also aims at comparing and analyzing, in a qualitative manner, the extent to which ideology between progressive and conservative press is reflected in Korean-Japanese translation and Korean-English translation of headline reports related to North Korea.