Workers' Party of North Korea

A Marxist-Leninist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949 and was a predecessor of the current Workers' Party of Korea. It was founded at a congress on 28–30 August 1946, by the merger of the Communist Party of North Korea (created earlier that year after the northern branch of the Communist Party of Korea became independent from the Central Committee in Seoul) and the New People's Party of Korea. Kim Tu-bong, the leader of the New People's Party, was elected chairman of the party, while Chu Yong-ha and Kim Il Sung were elected as vice chairmen. At the time of establishment, the party is believed to have had about 366,000 members organized in around 12,000 party cells.

Chairman: Kim Tu-bong