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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 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]
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 ...
On 22 July 1946 the northern section of the Communist Party of Korea joined with the New People's Party, the Democratic Party and the Party of Young Friends of the Celestial Way (supporters of an influential religious sect) to form the United Democratic National Front which put all of North Korea's parties under the "leading role" of the Communists.
In the meantime the Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) was established through the merger of the Communist Party of South Korea (led by Pak Hon-yong), New People's Party of Korea and a faction of the People's Party of Korea on 24 November 1946. [8] The WPSK Central Committee elected Ho Hon as its party chairman. [9]
The bamboo curtain was a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China and the capitalist states of East, South and Southeast Asia. To the north and northwest lay the communist states of: China, Russia (the Soviet Union before A.D. 1991), North Vietnam, North Korea and the Mongolian ...
In 1927, upon returning to Korea, he joined, and became an executive, of the Communist Party of Korea. In February 1928 Choe was imprisoned for the so-called "Third Communist Party of Korea Incident". He escaped from prison in 1935. [citation needed] In 1936, he sought and gained political asylum in China.