The 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea

October 10th is the 75th anniversary of the 1945 founding of what is today the Workers' Party of Korea, celebrated as Party Foundation Day in DPR Korea.  The original Communist Party of Korea was clandestinely founded in Seoul in 1925, but fell apart as a national organization due to factionalism, lost the confidence of the Comintern, and was repressed by the Japanese occupiers during the 30's.  Below is an October 9th article from the official DPRK website Naenara ( www.naenara.com.kp/ , unavailable for years if not today in the ROK), available in English and several other languages.  Naenara includes information about DPRK politics, economics, history, culture, foods, the environment and natural wonders, tourist information (except for the pandemic, there are group tours through companies such as koryogroup.com/ ), photos, online books, and freely downloadable songs.  The Korean Central News Agency, founded December 5, 1946, also has articles in English:  www.kcna.kp/kcna.user.home.retrieveHomeInfoList.kcmsf   

DPRK holidays later in the year include Mother's Day (November 16th); the December 24th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong-suk, a guerilla during the war for independence from Japan, Kim Il Sung's first wife, and Kim Jong Il's mother; and Constitution Day, marking the adoption of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK at the 5th Supreme People's Assembly December 27, 1972, replacing the 1948 constitution (Juche replaced Marxism-Leninism in a 1992 amendment). 

Today is also the 119th anniversary of the beginning of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, part of the Xinhai or Chinese Revolution, which overthrew the last Qing emperor and established the Republic of China with Sun Yat-sen as president.  It is still the national day in Taiwan but is also important in the People's Republic of China (China's National Day marks October 1, 1949)

According to Wikipedia, October 10th is Vietnam's Capital Liberation Day and Cuba's Independence Day, commemorating the Grito de Yara at the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868.  It took two more wars before Spanish rule was successfully overthrown in 1898, followed by a few years of direct military occupation and decades of subservience to the USA until 1959. 

Historic Cause of Party Founding Comes True

President Kim Il Sung buckled down to founding the Party after Korea’s liberation (August 15, 1945) on the basis of organizational and ideological preparations he had made during the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

In his speech delivered to military and political cadres of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army on August 20, Juche 34 (1945), he set forth the three-point task of founding a party, state and armed forces in the liberated homeland and set the party founding as the primary task.

In his talk to the military and political cadres and the senior officials of the Wonsan City Communist Party Organizations on September 19, he underscored the need to found the party in such a way of forming party organizations in local areas first and, on this basis, forming the central leadership organ of the party.

He dispatched the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to different parts of the country in order to build up local party organizations.

They positively readjusted and fortified the existing Party organizations and formed new Party organizations where there had been no organization.

As a result, Party organizations at all levels were formed across the country, to say nothing of all industrial establishments.

Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung met with local communists active in different parts of Korea to explain the policy of founding a unified party and led them to the efforts to this end.

He mapped out the organizational and political lines of the party to be founded in the future and took measures for training party officials, while directing the work of anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters active in all provinces.

A preliminary meeting for founding the party was convened on October 5, in which it discussed the issue of establishing the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of North Korea as the party central leadership body.

Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung convened the Inaugural Congress of the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of North Korea in Pyongyang from October 10 to 13, Juche 34 (1945).

On October 10, the first day of the congress, the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of North Korea was formed and the founding of the Party was solemnly declared.

As a result, the historic cause of founding a Juche-type revolutionary party, which started from the formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union, came true successfully.