North Korean Workers' Party

...It is considered to be the vanguard of workers, farmers, and working intellectuals, as well as a mass political party representing the interests of the Korean nation and the Korean people. Immediately after liberation, North Korean communists were also influenced by the Korean Communist Party, which was founded in Seoul early on and led by Park Hun-young and others, but in October 1945, Kim Il-sung and others formed their own North Korean branch of the Korean Communist Party (recent official documents call this the North Korean Organization Committee of the Korean Communist Party, or say that the Workers' Party of Korea was founded during this period), and in August 1946, due to the need to lead the broad working masses, it merged with the Korean New Democratic Party to form the Workers' Party of North Korea (from this time until June 1949, the chairman was Kim Pyo-bong of the old New Democratic Party, and Kim Il-sung was the vice-chairman). In South Korea, the Communist Party of Korea, the New Democratic Party, and the People's Party merged in September 1946 to form the South Korean Workers' Party (Chairman Heo Hun). This party launched a bold anti-American people's struggle, and after 1948 it even engaged in partisan struggle. However, amid severe repression, Pak Hun-young and other key leaders gradually moved to the safety of North Korea, and in June 1949 the two parties merged to form the Workers' Party of Korea (Chairman Kim Il-sung).

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "North Korean Workers' Party" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…労働者･農民･勤労知識人の前衛部隊であると同時に，朝鮮民族と朝鮮人民の利益を代表する大衆的政党でもあるとされている。　解放直後北朝鮮の共産主義者も，いち早くソウル中心に生まれた朴憲永らの朝鮮共産党の影響を受けていたが，1945年10月に金日成らを中心に独自の朝鮮共産党北朝鮮分局(最近の公式文献ではこれを朝鮮共産党北朝鮮組織委員会と呼び，あるいはこの時期に朝鮮労働党が創立されたとしている)が組織され，さらに46年8月広汎な勤労大衆を指導する必要から朝鮮新民党と合同して北朝鮮労働党が生まれた(このときから49年6月まで委員長は旧新民党の金枓奉（きんとほう）で，金日成は副委員長)。続いて南朝鮮でも46年9月朝鮮共産党･新民党･人民党の三者が合同して南朝鮮労働党が生まれ(委員長許憲)，果敢な反米人民抗争，48年以後にはパルチザン抗争をも展開したが，厳しい弾圧の中で朴憲永ら主要な指導者はしだいに安全な北朝鮮に移るようになり，49年6月には南北の党が合体して朝鮮労働党(委員長金日成)として再発足した。…

※「北朝鮮労働党」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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