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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 ...
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.
The North Korean Bureau became the Communist Party of North Korea in spring 1946, with Kim Il Sung being elected its chairman. [11] On 22 July 1946, Soviet authorities in North Korea established the United Democratic National Front, a popular front led by the Communist Party of North Korea. [12]
Preparatory Committee for National Construction → People's Party of Korea → People's Labor Party (1945–1950) Workers' Party of South Korea (1946–1953, banned) Korean Social Democratic Party (조선사회민주당, banned) Socialist Party (1951–1953) Progressive Party (1956–1958, banned) United Socialist Party of Korea (1961–1967 ...
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]
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Korea (CPK) (조선공산당 중앙위원회) was elected by the party congress on 14 September 1945, [1] and remained in session until the formation the Workers' Party of South Korea and its Central Committee on 24 November 1946. [2]
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]
Since then, communist parties have governed numerous countries, whether as ruling parties in one-party states like the Chinese Communist Party or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or as ruling parties in multi-party systems, including majority and minority governments as well as leading or being part of several coalitions.