President Kim Il Sung founded the publishing house on Dec. 4, Juche 38 (1949) and led it to conduct positive and wide-ranging overseas propaganda through media in each period and at each stage of the developing revolution.

Chairman Kim Jong Il visited the publishing house several times to indicate its mission and duty and principle to be maintained in editing and printing publications and ways for it.

The publishing house has covered a proud path of its development, creditably performing its duty assigned by the Workers' Party of Korea in the last 70 years after its founding.

A meeting took place at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre on December 4 to mark its founding anniversary.