1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea

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{{Infobox Central Committee outline

| image = Workers' Party of North Korea star.png

| imagesize = 180px

| caption = Emblem of the Workers' Party of North Korea

| number = 1st

| colorcode = {{party color|Workers' Party of Korea}}

| name = Central Committee

| members = 43

| body = Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea

| election = 1st Congress (1946)

| start = 30 August 1946

| end = 30 March 1948
({{age in years and days|1946|8|30|1948|3|30|df=y}})

| chairman = Kim Tu-bong

| vice_chairman = Kim Il Sung
Chu Yong-ha
Ho Ka-i

| full = 43

| nopc = 5 members

| nosc = 13 members

| previous = CPNK

| next = 2nd

}}

The 1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea (WPNK) ({{korean|1차 북조선로동당중앙위원회}}) was elected by the 1st Congress on 30 August 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of North Korea and the New People's Party of Korea,{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=282–3}} and remained in session until the election of the 2nd Central Committee on 30 March 1948.{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=285–6}} In between party congresses and specially convened conferences the Central Committee is the highest decision-making institution in the party and North Korea.{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=271 & 316–7}} The 1st Central Committee was not a permanent institution and delegated day-to-day work to elected central guidance bodies, such as the Political Committee, the Standing Committee and the Organisation Committee (membership not disclosed).{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=271}}{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=357}} It convened meetings, known as Plenary Sessions of the 1st Central Committee, to discuss major policies.{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=277}} A plenary session could be attended by non-members.{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=277}} These meetings are known as Enlarged Plenary Sessions.{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=277}} The party rules approved at the 1st Congress stipulated that the Central Committee needed to convene for a plenary session every third month.{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=276}} In total, the 1st Central Committee convened for twelve plenary sessions, of which eight were convened in 1947.{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=276–7}}

Forty-three members were elected to the 1st Central Committee, of which thirty-one were re-elected at the 2nd Congress.{{sfn|Suh|1981|p=312}} Its members convened for the 1st Plenary Session on 31 August 1946 and elected the 1st Organisation Committee, 1st Standing Committee and the 1st Political Committee, and voted in Kim Tu-bong as the WPNK Chairman and Kim Il Sung and Chu Yong-ha were elected vice chairmen.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=31}} Despite their formal roles, real powers remained in Kim Il Sung's hands, and Kim Tu-bong played a more ceremonial role due to his unwillingness to partake in the day-to-day management of party affairs.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=31}} In the 1st Plenary Session's aftermath, the party began establishing state structures known as provisional people's committees throughout the country, and in 1947 national elections to the People's Assembly was organised.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|pp=367–70}} At its first plenary session, the assembly elected a Presidium and designated Kim Tu-bong as its chairman and appointed the People's Committee (the government) and elected Kim Il Sung as its chairman.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=371}} Of twenty-two government members, sixteen were members of the WPNK.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=371}}

A feature of early North Korean politics was its factionalism.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} Four loosely defined factions had taken shape by this time; Kim Il Sung's partisans, domestic communists, the Yanan group and the Soviet Koreans.{{refn|While a hallmark of early North Korean politics is factionalism, scholars Scalapino and Lee note that "To place too much emphasis upon factional affiliation is probably a mistake, especially concerning the so-called Soviet and Yan'an factions. Defectors have often stated that the factional divisions were neither as clear-cut nor as meaningful in all cases as non-Communist sources alleged. Moreover, as a careful survey of this period reveals, increasingly the only meaningful faction was coming to be Kim Il Sung. The crucial factor was one's relationship to Kim, irrespective of background. Nevertheless, there were differences in background, educational experience, and even culture that stemmed from the heterogeneous nature of the Korean revolutionary movement. And this did constitute a political problem, as the Korean Communists readily admitted. While factionalism may not have been as important as some South Korean writers have indicated, and undoubtedly involved many more ambivalent and poorly defined factions, it remained a crucial issue in this period."{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|pp=479–80}}|group="note"}}{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} The partisans, comprising soldiers who had fought Japanese rule with Kim Il Sung, lacked both theoretical and organisational experience to take leading party offices.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} They were therefore poorly represented in the 1st Central Committee.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} The domestic faction, composed of indigenous communists and leading members of the Workers' Party of South Korea, were underrepresented due to their underground activities in South Korea.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} Korean revolutionaries based in China during Japanese rule, known as the Yanan faction, had the most representation on the committee.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} The Soviet Koreans, composed of Koreans who were either Soviet-born or lived there during Japanese rule, also had significant representation.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}} The conflict between these factions would intensify over the years, with Soviet Korean Yu Song-gol stating that he "as early as 1947{{nbsp}}... overheard how former partisans not only mentioned the [Yanans] and 'Soviets' with a great deal of animosity but also expressed the desire to be rid of them in due course."{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=88}} These factional conflicts were rarely based on policy differences but rather on personal interests and the struggle for power.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=89}} Scholar Andrey Lankov notes that "at least [twenty-eight] members" of the 1st Central Committee "became victims of Kim Il Sung's purges. The real number was probably even higher since, in many cases, purges were not made public."{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=82}}

A conflict between Kim Il Sung's partisan faction and Pak Hon-yong's domestic faction had been brewing since the North Korean Branch Bureau's formation in October 1945.{{sfn|Lankov|2002|p=89}} The leading domestic communist in the North, O Ki-sop, was accused of making "leftist and rightist errors" at the 3rd Enlarged Plenary Session.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=377}} Vice Chairman Chu Yong-ha further elaborated on the criticism and claimed that "O had attempted to apply labour union principles under capitalism to the socialist setting of North Korea, thereby deliberately inciting unthinking workers."{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=377}} O Ki-sop defended himself by citing the works of Vladimir Lenin and claimed that "[if I am such] a pain in the neck then why not just pin the label of Trotskyite on [me]?"{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=378}} While Pak Il-u supposedly rose in his defence and called for a committee to study the Lenin work in question, Kim Il Sung stated that no such committee was necessary due to O Ki-sop's past mistakes.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=378}} The criticism of O Ki-sop and the attacks on the indigenous North Korean communist movement that had remained active in Korea during Japanese colonialism were supported by the partisans, Soviet Koreans and the Yanans.{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=378}}

Plenary sessions

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|+ Plenary sessions of the 1st Central Committee
{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=282–5}}

! scope="col" | Plenum

! scope="col" | Date

! scope="col" | Length

! scope="col" | Agenda

scope="row" | 1st Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="1" | 31 August 1946

| 1 day

|

  1. Elections of the officers and apparatus heads of the 1st Central Committee.
scope="row" | 2nd Enlarged Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="2" | 25 September 1946

| 1 day

|

  1. Report by Kim Il Sung on the election to the People's Committee.
scope="row" | 3rd Enlarged Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="3" | 25 November 1946

| 1 day

|

  1. Debate on the party's present tasks.
  2. Debate on the elections held on 3 November.
  3. Concerning the strengthening of the party's organisation and political educational projects.
scope="row" | 4th Enlarged Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="4" | 2 February 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. Debate on the election of the people's committees at the myon and ri administrative levels.
scope="row" | 5th Plenary Session

| Not made public

| Not made public

| Not made public

scope="row" | 6th Enlarged Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="5" | 15 March 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. Report by Kim Il Sung on party work to realise economic reconstruction and development.
  2. Debate on the party's duty to strengthen the people's rights.
  3. Report concerning the grave errors of some party organisations in some party projects.
scope="row" | 7th Enlarged Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="6" | 16 June 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. Debate on participating in and cooperating with the US–Soviet Joint Commission on Korea on establishing an interim Korean government.
  2. Election of a representative to the US–Soviet Joint Commission.
  3. Kim Il Sung was elected the Representative to the US–Soviet Joint Commission
  4. Election of an ad hoc committee to respond to the US–Soviet Joint Commission's questionnaires.
scope="row" | 8th Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="7" | 1 July 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. Debate on the US–Soviet Joint Commission on Korea resolutions.
  2. Approving the reply on Article 5 and Article 6 in the "Organizations of the Interim Government" of the US–Soviet Joint Commission.
scope="row" | 9th Plenary Session

| Not made public

| Not made public

| Not made public

scope="row" | 10th Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="8" | 13 September 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. Discussion on the role of the party leadership in projects of the mass organisations.
scope="row" | 11th Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="9" | 23 December 1947

| 1 day

|

  1. On projects concerning every party leading organ.
  2. Discussion on the gathering of the 2nd Congress.
  3. Election of a bylaw draft committee to amend the party platform and rules.
  4. Concerning the policy of realising the first and fourth periods of the 1948 economic plan.
  5. Concerning organisational problems.
scope="row" | 12th Plenary Session

| data-sort-value="10" | 9 February 1948

| 1 day

|

  1. Report by Kim Il Sung on every party organisation's responsibility to realise the 1948 economic plan.
  2. Debate on the draft of the interim constitution of Korea.
  3. Debate on postponing the 2nd Congress.

Members

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|+Members of the 1st Central Committee
{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=316–8|ps=. This reference informs about Central Committee membership, Politburo membership, Standing Committee membership, death of members and reelection to 2nd Central Committee.}}{{sfn|Suh|1981|pp=459–82|ps=. This reference informs about the composition of every North Korean government from 1948–80.}}{{Cite web|url=http://db.history.go.kr/item/level.do?sort=levelId&dir=ASC&start=1&limit=20&page=1&pre_page=1&setId=-1&prevPage=6&prevLimit=&itemId=kn&types=&synonym=off&chinessChar=on&brokerPagingInfo=&levelId=kn_054_0080_0030&position=-1|language=Korean|trans-title=ko:III. Organization and Role of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea|title=III. 북조선임시인민위원회 조직과 역할

|publisher=National Institute of Korean History|access-date=8 February 2021|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208204431/http://db.history.go.kr/item/level.do?sort=levelId&dir=ASC&start=1&limit=20&page=1&pre_page=1&setId=-1&prevPage=6&prevLimit=&itemId=kn&types=&synonym=off&chinessChar=on&brokerPagingInfo=&levelId=kn_054_0080_0030&position=-1}} This reference informs on the composition of the People's Committee, the provisional government of North Korea 1946–8, and those that held government offices within it.{{sfn|Paik|1993|pp=823–6|ps=. This reference informs the reader about the composition of the North Korean military leadership at the time of the 1st Central Committee.}}{{sfn|Paik|1993|p=179|ps=. This reference informs the reader on the background of each member of the 1st Central Committee.}}{{sfn|Research Institute of East-West Problems|1983|pp=565–6 & 576|ps=. This reference informs on the offices held by Pak Chong-ae and Pak Il-u during the term of the 1st Central Committee.}}

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Rank

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Name

! scope="col" rowspan="2" class="unsortable" | Korean

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | 2nd CC

! scope="col" colspan="2" | Inner-composition

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Background

1st POC

! 1st STC

1

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Tu-bong

| 김두봉

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="1" bgcolor = LightBlue | Member

| data-sort-value="1" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Yanan

2

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Il Sung

| 김일성

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="2" bgcolor = LightBlue | Member

| data-sort-value="2" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Partisan

3

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chu Yong-ha

| 주영하

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="3" bgcolor = LightBlue | Member

| data-sort-value="3" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Domestic

4

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Choe Chang-ik

| 최창익

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="5" bgcolor = LightBlue | Member

| data-sort-value="5" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Yanan

5

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Ho Ka-i

| 허가이

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="4" bgcolor = LightBlue | Member

| data-sort-value="4" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Soviet

6

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Chang-man

| 김창만

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="7" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Yanan

7

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Ho Jong-suk

| 허정숙

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

8

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Yong-tae

| 김용태

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

9

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Pak Chang-sik

| 박창식

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="11" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Soviet

10

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Pak Chong-ae

| 박정애

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="9" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Domestic

11

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Chaek

| 김책

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="8" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Partisan

12

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Mu Chuong

| 무정

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

13

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Yi Chun-am

| 이춘암

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

14

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | An Kil

| 안길

| bgcolor = LightPink | {{abbr|Died|Died of natural causes on 13 December 1947.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Partisan

15

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Ye-pil

| 김예필

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

16

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Il

| 김일

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="12" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Partisan

17

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Pak Hyo-sam

| 박효삼

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="10" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Yanan

18

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chang Sun-myong

| 장선명

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

19

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Yol

| 김열

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

20

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Chae-uk

| 김채욱

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="13" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Soviet

21

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | {{ill|Yun Kong-hum|ko|윤공흠}}

| 윤공흠

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yan'an

22

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Han Il-mu

| 한일무

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

23

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Tae Song-su

| 태성수

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

24

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Han Sol-ya

| 한설야

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

25

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Choe Kyong-dok

| 최경덕

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

26

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kang Chin-gon

| 강진곤

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

27

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chang Si-u

| 장시우

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

28

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chong Tu-hyon

| 정두현

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

29

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Yim To-jun

| 임도준

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| —

30

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Yim Hae

| 임해

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Partisan

31

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | O Ki-sop

| 오기섭

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

32

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Uk-chin

| 김욱진

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

33

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Yi Sun-gun

| 이순금

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

34

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Kyo-yong

| 김교용

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Partisan

35

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Myong Hi-jo

| 명희조

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

36

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Han Pin

| 한빈

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

37

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Yi Chong-ik

| 이종익

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| —

38

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chon Song-hwa

| 전송화

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Soviet

39

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Wol-song

| 김월송

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

40

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Chang Chong-sik

| 장종식

| bgcolor = PeachPuff | {{abbr|Not|Not reelected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Domestic

41

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Kim Min-san

| 김민산

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| —

42

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Pak Hun-il

| 박헌일

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| Yanan

43

! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" | Pak Il-u

| 박일우

| bgcolor = LightGreen | {{abbr|Reelected|Elected to the 2nd Central Committee.}}

| data-sort-value="100" | —

| data-sort-value="7" bgcolor = LightYellow | Member

| Yanan

Notes

References

=Citations=

{{reflist}}

=Bibliography=

Books:

  • {{Cite book |last=Lankov |first=Andrey |title=From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=2002|isbn=978-0-8135-3117-5 }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Scalapino |first1=Robert |last2=Lee |first2=Chong-sik |url=https://archive.org/details/communisminkorea0000scal/page/72/mode/2up |title=Communism in Korea: The Movement |publisher=University of California Press |year=1972|isbn=978-0-520-02080-1 }}
  • {{cite book | author = Suh, Dae-sook | ref = CITEREFSuh1981 | title = Korean Communism 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System | publisher = University Press of Hawaii | year = 1981 | isbn = 978-0-8248-0740-5| edition = 1st | pages = }}

Dissertations:

  • {{cite thesis |last=Paik |first=Hak Soon |date=1993 |title=North Korean State Formation, 1945–1950 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |oclc=187455561 |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9413886/ |access-date=2021-02-17 |archive-date=2022-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328163347/https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9413886/ |url-status=live }}

Journals:

  • {{Cite journal | author = Research Institute of East-West Problems | issue = 304 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA368792.pdf|title=North Korea: Biographic Dictionary (Part II) | date = 24 August 1983 |publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|oclc=880847287|journal=Korean Affairs Report|archive-date=3 October 2020| url-status = live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003104133/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA368792.pdf}}

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