North Korean Branch Bureau

North Korean Branch Bureau
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Emblem of the Workers' Party of North Korea
13 October 1945 – 30 August 1946 (321 days) Overview
Type	Executive Committee of the North Korean Branch Bureau
Election	Conference of Korean Communist Party Members and Enthusiasts in the Five Northwestern Provinces
Leadership
First Secretary	Kim Il Sung Kim Yong-bom
Second Secretary	O Ki-sop
Members
Total	14
Apparatus
Head of General Affairs	Pak Chong-ho
No. of departments	9

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] It changed its name to the Communist Party of North Korea (Korean: 북조선공산당) on 10 April 1946 and became independent of the CPK.^[2]