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Workers' Party of North Korea (Workers' Party) 북조선로동당 Pukchosŏn Rodongdang: Merged with the Workers' Party of South Korea in 1949 to form the Workers' Party of Korea. [5] New People's Party of Korea 조선신민당 Chosŏn Sinmindang: Merged with the Communist Party of Korea in 1946 to form the Workers' Party of South Korea. [6]
In the North Korean government, the Cabinet is the administrative and executive body. [1] The North Korean government consists of three branches: administrative, legislative, and judicial . However, they are not independent of each other, but all branches are under the exclusive political leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
A founding conference of the Workers' Party of North Korea was held on August 28–30. In September 1946, the Communist Party of Korea led a nationwide general strike. At its peak, more than 250,000 workers had joined the strike, which evolved into the first of October Daegu Uprising (Autumn Uprising). [10] [11] The remainder of the party ...
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 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]
WPK General Secretary is typically the supreme leader, who controls the WPK Presidium, the WPK Politburo, the WPK Secretariat and the WPK Central Military Commission, making the officeholder the most powerful person in North Korea. The WPK is the ruling party of North Korea. It has been in power since its creation in 1948.
Nepal was previously ruled by the Nepal Communist Party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) between 1994 and 1998 and then again between 2008 and 2018 while states formerly ruled by one or more communist parties include San Marino (1945–1957 and 1978-1990), Moldova ...
The Provisional People's Committee of North Korea (Korean: 북조선림시인민위원회) was the provisional government of North Korea.. The committee was established on 8 February 1946 in response for the need of the Soviet Civil Administration and the communists to have centralization of power in northern Korea, which was then an area divided into provincial people's committees.