Workers' Party of North Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea

북조선로동당
Workers' Party of North Korea 북조선로동당
Chairman	Kim Tu-bong
Vice Chairmen	Kim Il Sung; Chu Yong-ha; Ho Ka-i
Founded	28 August 1946
Dissolved	24 June 1949
Merger of	Communist Party of Korea; New People's Party of Korea
Merged into	Workers' Party of Korea
Headquarters	Pyongyang
Newspaper	Rodong Sinmun; Kunroja
Youth wing	Democratic Youth League of North Korea
Pioneer wing	North Korean Children's Union
Labour wing	General Federation of Trade Unions of North Korea
Membership (1946)	366,000
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism;
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Fatherland United Democratic Front
Colors	Red
Supreme People's Assembly	172 / 572
Party flag
	Politics of North Korea; Political parties; Elections;

The Workers' Party of North Korea (Korean: 북조선로동당; Hancha: 北朝鮮勞動黨) was a communist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949 and was a predecessor of the current Workers' Party of Korea. It was founded at a congress on 28–30 August 1946, by the merger of the northern branch of the Communist Party of Korea and the New People's Party of Korea.^[1]^[2]^[3] Kim Tu-bong, the leader of the New People's Party, was elected chairman of the party, while Chu Yong-ha and Kim Il Sung were elected as vice chairmen.^[4] At the time of establishment, the party is believed to have had about 366,000 members organized in around 12,000 party cells.^[4]^[5]

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^ ^a ^b Chong-Sik Lee (1963). "Politics in North Korea: Pre-Korean War Stage". The China Quarterly (14): 3–16. JSTOR 651339.
^ "General NK Topics: NK Politics/Regime". KBS World Radio. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007.
These figures appears to be taken from official North Korean sources. Soviet authors A. Gitovich and B. Bursov claimed that the party had around 160,000 members in 1946.