The Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House (WPKPH, ) is the principal

publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

of the

Workers' Party of Korea The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of ...

(WPK) and one of the two main publishers in the country. It publishes magazines and books on politics, such as the works of

Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

and

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

, posters and works of fiction. The current director-general and editor-in-chief is

Ri Yong-chol Ri Yong-chol (; born 8 January 1991) is a North Korean footballer who currently plays as a defender for North Korean club Hwaebul Sports Club. International career Ri made his first senior international appearance in a friendly in and agains ...

Organization

The publishing house is under the control of the WPK's

Propaganda and Agitation Department The Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD, ), officially translated as the Publicity and Information Department, is a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) tasked with coordinating the creation and dissemina ...

and is the party's most important publisher. It was founded in October 1945 in Pyongyang, where it is still based. It is one of the two main publishers in North Korea, the other one being the Foreign Languages Publishing House.

Directors

The current director-general and editor-in-chief is

. * Kim Yong-hak (1980s) * Yang Kyong-pok (1990s) * Ryang Kyong-bok (2000s) *

(2010s)

Publications

The publishing house publishes books on politics as well as fiction. According to North Korean sources, they include: This includes works of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in Korean, including their selected (''sŏnjip''), collected (''chŏjakchip'') and complete works (''chŏnjip''). In addition to books, it publishes posters and the magazine ''

Kulloja ''Kunloja'' (; ) is a political magazine published in North Korea. Launched in 1946 it is published monthly and is an official publication of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. History and profile ''Kunloja'' was first publis ...

'', the theoretical monthly of the party. During the

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, it published works of the leader of

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in return for Editura Politică publishing those of Kim Il-sung. Some multi-volume publications by the publishing house include: * '' Among the People'' * ''

Collection of Kim Il-sung's Anecdotes Collection or Collections may refer to: * Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department * Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service * Collection agency, agency to collect cash * Collections ...

'' * ''

General Kim Jong-il, Sun of Songun A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...

'' * '' Glorifying the Era of Juche'' * ''

History of Anti-Japanese Armed Struggle History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

'' (Enlarged Edition) * ''

Complete Collection of Kim Il-sung's Works Complete may refer to: Logic * Completeness (logic) * Completeness of a theory, the property of a theory that every formula in the theory's language or its negation is provable Mathematics * The completeness of the real numbers, which implies t ...

'' * ''

'' (Enlarged Edition) * ''

Complete Collection of Kim Jong-il's Works Complete may refer to: Logic * Completeness (logic) * Completeness of a theory, the property of a theory that every formula in the theory's language or its negation is provable Mathematics * The completeness of the real numbers, which implies t ...

'' * ''

Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas ''Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas'' is a collection of memoirs of North Korean guerillas fighting during the 1930s and 1940s in Manchuria against the Japanese. It was used as a textbook for indoctrination until it was effectively ...

'' * ''

Selected Works of Kim Jong-il Selection may refer to: Science * Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution ** Sex selection, in genetics ** Mate selection, in mating ** Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality ** Human mating strateg ...

'' (Enlarged Edition) * ''

With the Century ''Reminiscences: With the Century'' () is the autobiography of Kim Il-sung, founder and former president of North Korea. The memoirs, written in 1992 and published in eight volumes, retell Kim's life story through his childhood to the time of ...

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