80th Founding Anniversary of Agricultural Publishing House Marked in DPRK

Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on September 24 to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Agricultural Publishing House.

Present there were Ju Chang Il, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials, journalists, editors and other employees of the publishing house.

Ju Chang Il read out the congratulatory letter sent by the WPK Central Committee to the journalists, editors and officials of the Agricultural Publishing House.

The WPK Central Committee in its congratulatory letter extended warm congratulations and encouragement to the journalists, editors and officials of the Agricultural Publishing House who are marking its 80th founding anniversary with great confidence, fresh resolution and proud memories of its steady growth as a powerful base for informing people of the Party's agricultural polices and a comprehensive agricultural publication publishing base.

Since the founding of the magazine Korean Agriculture on September 25, 1946, the Agricultural Publishing House has made considerable contributions to the innovation of the agricultural sector, one of the two major sectors of the national economy, and to the strengthening of the rural positions for the past 80 years, the letter said.

The WPK Central Committee in its congratulatory letter highly appreciated the patriotic devotion of the journalists, editors and officials of the Agricultural Publishing House, after saying that it is their own pride that they can look back with a clear conscience upon the road they have followed, and look at the road ahead of them with the will and desire to keep on following the road as it had done.

Ri Chung Song, president and editor-in-chief of the Agricultural Publishing House made a commemorative report and speeches were made.

A resolution was adopted at the meeting. -0-