Korean Social Democratic Party

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조선 사회 민주당
Chosŏn Sahoeminjudang
Korean Social Democratic Party
KSDP logo
Party leader Park Yong-il
Deputy Chairman Kang Pyong-hak
founding November 3, 1945
Place of foundation Pyongyang
Headquarters Pyongyang
newspaper Chŏson Sahoeminjudang
Korean Social Democratic Party ( English )
KSDP Says… ( English )
Alignment Nationalism (until around 1950), social democracy (official), block party in the Chuch'e ideology
Parliament seats
50/687
Number of members over 30,000
Website ryomyong.com
Founding meeting of the party on November 3, 1945
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 조선 사회 민주당
Hanja : 朝鮮 社會 民主黨
Revised Romanization : Joseon Sahoeminjudang
McCune-Reischauer : Choson Sahoeminjudang
KSDP party flag

The Korean Social Democratic Party (KSDP) (also known as the Korean Social Democratic Party [SDPK] ; Korean Chosŏn Sahoeminjudang ) (until 1981 Korean Democratic Party , Korean Chosŏn Minjudang ) is a 30,000-member North Korean political party. It must bow to the guidelines of the Korean Communist Party of Labor .

The party chairman (officially chairman of the Central Committee ) is Park Yong-il.

The organ of the Central Committee of the KSDP Chŏson Sahoeminjudang has been published quarterly since 1982 in Korean and under the title The Korean Social Democratic Party or KSDP says in English .

history

The Korean Social Democratic Party was founded on November 3, 1945 under the name of the Korean Democratic Party . The first chairman was the nationalist politician Cho Man-sik . In the course of the consolidation of communist state power in North Korea, Cho Man-sik was deposed in February 1946. The Democratic Party was subsequently infiltrated by supporters of the communists under the later head of state Kim Il-sung . The former commander of the anti-Japanese partisan army Ch'oe Yong-gŏn became chairman . His deputy in the 1950s was Kang Ryang-uk , an uncle of Kim Il-sung. The party has now been adapted to the ruling Communist Party of Work of Korea (PdAK) in terms of personnel and programs. Unpopular members were removed. In January 1981 it was renamed the Korean Social Democratic Party .

On August 29, 2019, the Central Committee of the Party elected Park Yong-il as the new chairman, who replaced Kim Yŏng-dae . Kim had been the chairman of the Central Committee since 1998.

Current situation

The KSDP has 50 members in the Supreme People's Assembly , in which it - alongside the national religious Chondoist Ch'ŏngu Party - is part of the Democratic Front for the reunification of the fatherland dominated by the PdAK . Similar to the so-called “ block parties ” in the GDR , the KSDP only serves to create the appearance of a multi-party system and thus to give the dictatorial system a democratic look.

It is claimed that the party has an organizational system at all levels (nation, province, city and district). This cannot be verified.

International Relations of the KSDP

During the GDR period there was some contact between the Korean Democratic Party and the LDPD . On August 22, 2008 and March 26, 2010, she passed joint statements with the South Korean Minju-nodong Party ( 민주 노동당 , Democratic Workers Party).

The KSDP also has contacts to the left-wing nationalist Minjung party from South Korea. In July 2018, representatives from both parties met in Shenyang , China , with members of the Minjung Party disregarding the South Korean Unification Ministry, which had not authorized the meeting. After the KSDP elected Park Yong-il as the new chairman in August 2019, the Minjung party sent a letter of congratulation.

Chairperson

Surname image Term of office
Cho Man-sik Cho Man-sik 02.jpg November 3, 1945 to February 1946
Ch'oe Yong-gŏn Ch'oe Yonggŏn.JPG February 1946 to 1959
Kang Ryang-uk 1959 to February 1983
I Kye-paek April 17, 1989 to July 1993
Kim Pyŏng-sik July 1993 to November 1993
Kim Yŏng-dae August 1998 to August 2019
Park Yong-il since August 2019

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. DFRK Central Committee Meets ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . KCNA dated February 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kcna.co.jp
  4. Peter Joachim Lapp: The "friendly parties" of the SED , Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1988, p. 104.
  5. ^ Park Ji-won: Minjung Party may face fine for meeting NK party. In: The Korea Times. July 26, 2018, accessed April 7, 2020 .