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  Workers' Party of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1930s the party, in alliance with the Communist Party of China, conducted guerilla operations in the mountains of northern Korea against the Japanese and Kim became one of the party's guerilla leaders.
The Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party was a bombshell with Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin and the inauguration of destalinisation.
The party and Kim in particular were wary of destalinisation and of Khrushchev's reforms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Workers'_Party   (4425 words)

  
 Communist party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of the United States was considered within the political mainstream during the 1930s and 1940s, but was declared illegal for a time at the advent of the Cold War.
Members of communist parties were persecuted in many countries in the early Cold War period, when anticommunist sentiment was fueled by Western governments as part of their Cold War strategy.
The doctrine of ruling communist parties was typically that all property would belong to the state as the transition to a communist society (see socialism and state capitalism), and that the state would highly regulate all commerce in the country in the meantime.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party   (1616 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Korean War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Seoul was captured by the North Koreans on the afternoon of June 28, but the North Koreans had not accomplished their goal of a quick surrender by the Rhee government and the disintegration of the South Korean Army.
The start of the Korean War rendered untenable any policy that would have caused Taiwan to fall under Communist control and Truman's decision to send American forces into the Taiwan straits saved the Kuomintang's government from defeat and ended any immediate hopes of conquering that island for the Communist Party of China.
When two Korean brothers are drafted into the military to fight in the war, their older brother tries to protect them from the harsh realities of war, resulting in conflicts that wear away at his own humanity.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Korean_War   (6003 words)

  
 15.2. Homeland Party Working Committee
As mentioned before, the Comintern had withdrawn its recognition of the Korean Communist Party in 1928, authorized that it should be reorganized and called on the Korean communists active in Manchuria and Japan to join the party of the country of their residence on the principle of one party for one country.
As the communist movement is a national movement, as well as an international movement presupposing class solidarity, it is not Strange for communists, the performers of the movement, to join a foreign party organization for a time and transcend their nationality.
The Korean communist movement, slighted and scorned, owing to factional strife and lack of theory and practical ability, began to blaze its trail dynamically amidst the flames of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
www.kimsoft.com /war/r-15-2.htm   (7601 words)

  
 cars - Workers Party of Korea
The party is widely viewed by foreigners as Stalinist and is the closest thing to a traditional Stalinistic ruling party in the world today.
The first Korean Communist Party was founded in Shanghai in 1921 by a small group of radical students led by Yi Tong-hwi, who in 1918 had tried to organise a Korean Socialist Party in Khabarovsk.
As repression against the Communists under the anti-Communist regime of Yi Sung-man (known in the west as Syngman Rhee) most of the leaders of the SWPK moved to Pyongyang and directed their activities from there.
www.carluvers.com /cars/KCP   (4254 words)

  
 4.4. The First Party Organization: the Society for Rallying Comrades
Another difficulty in founding the party was that it was impossible for the Korean communists to found their own party in Manchuria because of the principle of one party for one country laid down by the Comintern.
The eastern propaganda department of the Communist International convened the Conference of the Korean and Chinese Communist Parties in Khabarovsk in May 1930 and informed the delegates of the decision of the Comintern of the organizational question regarding the Korean Communist Party.
I told them clearly that the demand of the Comintern that the Korean communists should join the Chinese party in accordance with the principle of one party for one country should not be censured and that the demand did not imply depriving the Korean communists of the possibility of rebuilding their party.
www.kimsoft.com /war/r-4-4.htm   (4970 words)

  
 The Korean People’s Republic Japan Alternate History
The Korean protest demonstration of March 1919 was brutally crushed; this fuelled Korean national and communist movements.
Meanwhile, a Korean faction of the Russian Communist Party was established in Russia in January 1918.
A Korean Battalion was formed in the 18th Red Army division in the Far East in 1938, and its Commander and 54 of its officers were shipped by the Soviets to Korea in October 1939.
www.angelfire.com /gundam/japanese_empire/altjap/korea.htm   (1933 words)

  
 Windows on Asia
Kim was head of the Korean communist party and had close ties with the Russians.
Under the communist rule, land reforms were carried out that gave away free land to the Korean farmers, who in turn had to return back to the state a quarter of the produce.
Communist ideology was promoted by creating the Communist Youth League, which aimed to educate the younger generation in Socialism.
www.isp.msu.edu /asianStudies/wbwoa/eastasia/NorthKorea/history.html   (1181 words)

  
 1919-27. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The Korean Youth League was founded when some 600 smaller groups coalesced.
The number of police stations, meanwhile, increased from 151 in 1919 to 251 by late 1920 (substations rose from 686 to 2,495).
Yi had organized a Korean Socialist Party in Khabarovsk in 1918, which he moved to Shanghai in 1921 when the Communist Party was created; in 1920 (some say 1919) a Korean section of the Bolshevik Party was organized in Irkutsk, which also joined the Korean Communist Party.
www.bartleby.com /67/2490.html   (392 words)

  
 CPUSA Online - FAQ's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Communist Party USA is in favor of socialized medicine, guaranteed retirement in the form of improved social security benefits, strengthened environmental protection, full funding of education, amnesty for immigrants, and democratization of all regulatory agencies.
Communist Parties in countries with more repressive or fascist governments have to focus more on centralism and security than we have had to over the last 30 years.
Our Party feels that the only way to get to a successful revolution is to win workers and their allies to struggles for reform, leading them to a consciousness of their own power, and to an awareness of the limits placed on real solutions by the capitalist system.
www.cpusa.org /article/static/511   (12185 words)

  
 Kaesong Industrial Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located six miles north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone with direct road and rail access to South Korea and an hour's drive from Seoul.
Thus far a dozen South Korean companies are participating in the project that employs six thousand North Korean Communist Party workers in eleven factories.
The industrial park is seen as a way for South Korean companies to employ cheap labor that is educated, skilled and speaks Korean which would make communication considerably easier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region   (647 words)

  
 February 18, 1997 HWANG DEFECTION: 'DANGEROUS' CRISIS FOR KOREAN PENINSULA
The situation on the Korean peninsula, with the possibility of triggering nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional conflict on a frightening scale, is perhaps the most dangerous and fraught in the world today.
For the communist regime and its leader Kim Jong Il, his desertion to the South is a grave blow and means a loss of authority.
In the power play in the East Asian region, with the Americans more than wary after their experience during the disastrous Korean War, the key to peace is held by the Chinese, who backed the North Korean communists in spectacular fashion, and the Japanese who have vainly wooed the peninsula.
www.fas.org /news/dprk/1997/97021802.htm   (5213 words)

  
 Why North Korea fears Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Korean Communist Party led an armed resistance to the Japanese occupation.
I think it is more likely that Stalin, who had accepted the division of Korea in 1945, disapproved of North Korean efforts to reunify their country, and hoped that the North Korean government could be pressured by the UN to quickly withdraw its troops behind the 38th parallel.
All dissent was repressed, and party leader Kim Il Sung became the centre of a bizarre leadership cult.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/537/537p21.htm   (1626 words)

  
 BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Senior North Korean leader dies
A senior politburo member of the North Korean Communist Party, Yi Chong-ok, has died at the age of 83.
Mr Yi, who was partially retired, had held a number of party and state posts including prime minister and vice-president.
Correspondents say Yi Chong-ok is regarded as one of the five or six most significant people in the country over the past twenty years.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/455537.stm   (136 words)

  
 NORTH KOREAN TIMELINE
•Young guerilla fighter, Kim Il Song became leader of North Korean political party in 1946, he was supported by others with military resources and was not challenged.
•The term national solipsism can be used to describe the isolationism attitude shared by many North Koreans towards westerners and the idea that it is the center of the world’s attention.
’s communist dictatorship survived in the early 1990’s when other communist countries were separating due to the strong nationalistic ties the Kim dynasty has left behind for the active ruling member.
www.lcsc.edu /elmartin/historybehindthenews/odell(spring2003).htm   (350 words)

  
 Korean Air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Korean Air is the largest airline based in Korea.
Korean Air Cargo - To be a respected leader in the world airline community
In 1969, state operated National Korean Airlines was purchased by the Hanjin Group.
www.allaboutvacation.com /flights/Korean-Air.htm   (672 words)

  
 The North Korean Communist Party Leader of the Region and I celebrating Kim Il Sung's Birthday | Photo
The North Korean Communist Party Leader of the Region and I celebrating Kim Il Sung's Birthday
The North Korean Communist Party Leader of the Region and I celebrating Kim Il Sung's Birthday
The trip was originally designed for students who were in the North and South Korean Conflict class, but it was opened up to all international students.
www.travelblog.org /Photos/299792.html   (216 words)

  
 [ks-open] Re: Communist Party membership of Korean nationalists
There are new revelations in my research about the Korean nationalist movement and its leaders, in addition to a new analysis of the historical backdrop of the political and ideological dynamics.
I can understand the sensitivity to the earlier communist involvement of both of the prominent nationalist leaders.
About the Communist Party membership and affiliations of YO UnhyOng and Kim Kyusik, there are numerous books in both Korean and English, including biographies.
koreaweb.ws /pipermail/ksopen_koreaweb.ws/2000-December/000166.html   (322 words)

  
 International Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) is a proletarian, revolutionary and internationalist tendency committed to the task of building Leninist parties as national sections of a democratic-centralist international.
We also look to James P. Cannon, a leader of the early American Communist Party who was won to Trotskyism and went on to become a principal founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), working in close collaboration with Leon Trotsky.
The origins of the ICL are in the Spartacist League/U.S., which began as the Revolutionary Tendency in the SWP and was bureaucratically expelled in 1963.
www.icl-fi.org   (508 words)

  
 JAPAN'S KOIZUMI TO FACE N. KOREAN PROSTITUTES ON UPCOMING VISIT TO KIM JONG-IL (My Title)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
An 'entertainment woman' must have been provided for each one of them by the North Korean government because this is the manner that the North Korean government welcomes guests from foreign governments.
Such women are from the 'Kip Mu Jo' in Korean, or the 'Yorokobi Gumi'in Japanese or the 'Detachment of Fun' in English.
Lee, the Vice Divisional Manager of the North Korean Communist Party Front Line, organized a group of young female dancers from an artist group to entertain Kim Jong Il.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/749554/posts   (1019 words)

  
 The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) Homepage
RCPB(ML) strongly condemns the criminal bombardment and invasion of Lebanon by the Israeli government, which has already led to hundreds of deaths and injuries to thousands, as well as the continuing aggression launched against the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere.
Our Party also condemns the support given to Israeli state terrorism by the big powers, and principally by the governments of Britain and the United States.
Marking the anniversary of the victory of the progressive forces of the Korean people in the just struggle to liberate the country against US-led aggression, July 27, 1953.
www.rcpbml.org.uk   (393 words)

  
 Korean Air War
451010 Korean Workers Party (also known as the North Korean Bureau of the Korean Communist Party) founded by Kim Il-Sung; Kim named Chairman.
Second commisssion on Korean government convenes in Seoul.
500621 Kim Il Sung notes the South Koreans are expecting a North Korean offensive.
www.korean-war.com /AirChronology.html   (5939 words)

  
 Communist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A specter is haunting Marina del Rey - the specter of the Communist Party.
Free yourself from bourgeois habits: embrace Lenin, Curley and Mao/homeless Fidel/Marx (graucho or otherwise)/ Trotsky/chocolate-covered Che/furry hats/vodka-blitzed Polish waif/red star/Chinese rice paddy worker/Beijing Bimbo/North Korean barbershop quartet/ sexy cosmonaut/V2 bomb-shell/hollywood communist sympathizer - or simply wear lumpen-proletariat red
Bring communal vodka - mixers and revolutionary mixes will be provided.
www.cruzate.com /communistparty   (81 words)

  
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