2nd Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
The 2nd Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), officially the Political Committee of the 2nd Central Committee (2nd CC), was elected in the immediate aftermath of the 2nd WPK Congress on 30 March 1948 by the 2nd CC's 1st Plenary Session.[1] The composition changed on the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) on 24 June 1953, and was again changed after a purge of WPSK-affiliated communists on 6 August 1953.
It sat until the 3rd Congress, which abolished the Political Committee and elected the 3rd Standing Committee in its place.
1st Plenary Session (1948–49)
[edit]Rank | Name | Hangul | Government posts | 1st POL | 1949 | Faction |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim Tu-bong | 김두봉 | Central
| Old | Reelected | Yanan |
2 | Kim Il Sung | 김일성 | Central | Old | Reelected | Partisan |
3 | Ho Ka-i | 허가이 | Central | Old | Reelected | Soviet |
4 | Kim Chaek | 김책 | — | New | Reelected | Partisan |
5 | Choe Chang-ik | 최창익 | — | Old | Demoted | Yanan |
6 | Pak Il-u | 최창익 | — | New | Reelected | Yanan |
7 | Chu Yong-ha | 주영하 | — | Old | Demoted | Domestic |
References: [1] |
1st Joint Plenary Session (1949–53)
[edit]Note that Pak Chong-ae was elected to the 2nd Political Committee on 4 November 1951 by the 4th Joint Plenary Session of the 2nd Central Committee.[2]
Rank | Name | Hangul | Government posts | 1948 | 1953 | Faction |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim Il Sung | 김일성 | Central
| Old | Reelected | Partisan |
2 | Pak Hon-yong | 박헌영 | Central | WPSK | Expelled | Domestic |
3 | Kim Chaek | 김책 | — | Old | Killed | Partisan |
4 | Pak Il-u | 최창익 | — | Old | Expelled | Yanan |
5 | Ho Ka-i | 허가이 | Central
| Old | Suicide | Soviet |
6 | Yi Sung-yop | 이성엽 | Central | WPSK | Expelled | Domestic |
7 | Kim Sam-yong | 김삼룡 | Central | WPSK | Expelled | Domestic |
8 | Kim Tu-bong | 김두봉 | — | Old | Reelected | Yanan |
9 | Ho Hon | 허헌 | — | WPSK | Died | Domestic |
10 | Pak Chong-ae | 박정애 | — | New | Reelected | Soviet |
References: [3] |
6th Joint Plenary Session (1953–56)
[edit]Rank | Name | Hangul | Government posts | 1953 | 3rd STC | Faction |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim Il Sung | 김일성 | Central
| Old | Reelected | Partisan |
2 | Kim Tu-bong | 김두봉 | — | Old | Reelected | Yanan |
3 | Pak Chong-ae | 박정애 | Central | Old | Reelected | Soviet |
4 | Pak Chang-ok | 박창옥 | Central | New | Demoted | Soviet |
5 | Kim Il | 김일 | Central | New | Reelected | Partisan |
References: [4] |
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Lankov, Andrey (2002). From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3117-5.
- Scalapino, Robert; Lee, Chong-sik (1972). Communism in Korea: The Movement. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02080-1.
- Suh, Dae-sook (1981). Korean Communism 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System (1st ed.). University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0740-5.