Workers' Party of South Korea

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Workers' Party of South Korea
남조선로동당
ChairmanHo Hon
Vice ChairmanPak Hon-yong
Yi Ki-sok
Founded23 November 1946 (1946-11-23)
Dissolved24 June 1949 (1949-06-24)
Merger ofCPK
NPPK
Merged intoWPK
Newspaper
Membership360,000 (1947 estimate)
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Party flag
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationNamjoseon rodongdang
McCune–ReischauerNamjosŏn rodongdang

The Workers' Party of South Korea (

Communist Party of South Korea, New People's Party of Korea and a faction of the People's Party of Korea (the so-called 'forty-eighters').[1] It was led by Ho Hon.[2] [failed verification
]

The party was outlawed by the

guerrilla struggle. As the persecution of party intensified, large sections of the party leadership moved to Pyongyang
.

The party was opposed to the formation of a South Korean state. In February–March 1948, it instigated

Jeju massacre), largely by forces of the South Korean Government.[citation needed
]

In one of its first official acts, the South Korean National Assembly passed the National Security Act in September 1948, which among other measures, outlawed the Workers' Party of South Korea.[5]

On 24 June 1949, the party merged with the Workers' Party of North Korea, forming the Workers' Party of Korea.[6] The WPNK leader Kim Il Sung became party chairman, whereas Pak Hon-yong became deputy chairman.

In the Korean War, 60,000 to 200,000 members of the party and suspected communist supporters, many of them civilians, were massacred by the South Korean Army with supervision of the US army[7] in what became known as the Bodo League massacre.

The clandestine trade union movement, the All Korea Labor Union (Chŏnp'yŏng) was connected to the party.

References

  1. JSTOR 2644095
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  2. ^ Online, Asia Time. "Asia Times Online :: Korea News - Part 5: Kim Il-sung and China". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. S2CID 154806824
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  4. ^ "Eisenhower Lecture #7: Allan R. Millett". Archived from the original on 7 September 2006. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
  5. ISBN 1-84176-282-2
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  6. ^ KBS WORLD Radio
  7. ^ "New evidence of Korean war killings". BBC News. 21 April 2000. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
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