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The remainder of the Communist Party of Korea, still functioning in the southern areas, worked under the name of Communist Party of South Korea. The party merged with the New People's Party of South Korea and the fraction of the People's Party of Korea (the so-called forty-eighters), founding the Workers Party of South Korea on November 23, 1946.
Meanwhile, existing Communist groups were reconstituted as a party under Kim Il Sung's leadership. On 18 December 1945, local Communist Party committees were combined into the North Korean Communist Party. [19] In August 1946, this party merged with the New People's Party to form the Workers' Party of North Korea.
North Korea's political system is built upon the principle of centralization. The constitution defines North Korea as "a dictatorship of people's democracy" [3] under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), which is given legal supremacy over other political parties.
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), a communist party led by a member of the Kim family, [103] [104] has an estimated 6.5 million members [105] and is in control of North Korean politics. It has two satellite parties, the Korean Social Democratic Party and the Chondoist Chongu Party. [106]
The Communist Party of North Korea soon merged with the New People's Party of Korea, a party primarily composed of communists from China. [12] A special commission of the two parties ratified the merger on 28 July 1946, and it became official the following day. [13] One month later (28–30 August 1946), the party held its founding congress ...
The North Korean Branch Bureau (NKBB) of the Communist Party of Korea (CPK; Korean: 조선공산당북조선분국) was established by a CPK conference on 13 October 1945, and was through the merger with New People's Party of Korea replaced by the 1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea on 30 August 1946. [1]
North Korea, a nuclear-armed communist state that technically remains at war with the South, had said nothing for a week after the deeply unpopular Yoon, 63, plunged the East Asian democracy and ...
The Communist Party of Korea (Korean: 조선공산당; Hanja: 朝鮮共產黨; MR: Chosŏn Kongsandang) was a communist party in Korea founded during a secret meeting in Seoul in 1925. [1] The Governor-General of Korea had banned communist and socialist parties under the Peace Preservation Law (see: history of Korea ), so the party had to ...