Chondoist Ch'ngu party

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조선 천도교 청우당 Chondoist
Ch'ŏngu party
Party leader vacant
Deputy Chairman Ri Myong-chol
founding February 5, 1946
Alignment National conservatism (until 1957)
Block party in the Chuch'e system
Cheondogyo
Colours) red
Parliament seats
22/687
Number of members approx. 200,000 (December 1946)
approx. 1700-3000 (1956)
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 조선 천도교 청우당
Hanja : 朝鮮 天道 敎 靑 友 黨
Revised Romanization : Joseon cheondogyo cheong (-) udang
McCune-Reischauer : Chosŏn ch'ŏndogyo ch'ŏngudang

The Chondoist Ch'ŏngu Party , also known as the Party of Young Friends of the Chondo Religion , is a political party in North Korea .

history

founding

The name of the Chondoist Ch' -ngu Party refers to the religion of Ch'ŏndogyo , whose followers founded it on February 5, 1946. The party’s founder and first chairman was Kim Tar-hyŏn . Ch'ŏndogyo was the second largest religious community in Korea when Japan surrendered in 1945 , which may have contributed to the party's membership soaring in the early years of its existence. A few months after it was founded, it already had 98,000 members and was larger than the Communist Party . In December 1946 it had over 200,000 members. In 1948 she received 16.5% of the seats in the Supreme People's Assembly of the newly founded state of North Korea.

Relationship with the communists

The ruling communists saw the party as a potential source of "counterrevolutionary" activities, all the more so after the party leaders in the south of the peninsula supported the Rhee government and the party supported a large anti-communist demonstration in Pyongyang in March 1948 . The leadership of the party in the north, whose relationship with the communists was acutely threatened by this, did not follow this course and consequently lost large parts of its supporters. In the following period, the northern part of the party under Kim Tar-hyŏn approached the leadership of North Korea. In 1950 both political arms were united under his leadership, but the religious arm of the South Korean Chondoists did not join the new movement.

Korean War

During the Korean War , the party supported the North Korean side, but many cadres emigrated to the south and defected. After the fighting ended, the previously practiced united front in North Korea was critically assessed and the ban on other political parties was considered. In the end, however, the united front was retained, even if the chondoists' opportunities to act politically were curtailed. In 1954, state funding was discontinued. Of the 10–50,000 Ch'ŏndogyo supporters, only a maximum of 3,000 were members of the party in the mid-1950s.

1957 until today

Although Kim Tar-hyŏn was involved in the government of North Korea as a minister without portfolio from 1957, he and some of his confidants were arrested as early as 1958. The allegation was a conspiracy against the leadership of the country together with the Social Democratic Party . Kim Tar-hyŏn's immunity was lifted. He pleaded guilty and may have been executed. There is no reliable information about its whereabouts. Pak Sindŏk, the former head of the party's organizational department, followed him in the party office.

The party suffered a wave of purges. It only maintained a central office; there were no more party organizations or provincial offices. De facto, the Chondoist Ch'ngu Party became part of the Communist Party, although it still exists on paper to this day. It is part of the National Front .

Ryu Mi-yŏng served as party leader until her death . She succeeded her late husband Choi Duk-shin in this position .

For 2008, the Harenberg yearbook currently estimated the proportion of followers of the Ch'ŏndogyo religion to be 13.9% of the population (3.141 million from 22.6 million), while the proportion of atheists and non-denominationalists according to the Fischer World Almanac was 68 % was.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Partido del Trabajo de Corea. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Harenberg aktuell 2008, page 624. Meyers lexikonverlag, Mannheim 2007
  3. ^ Fischer Weltalmanach 2008, page 289. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007