Korean Social Democratic Party
The Korean Social Democratic Party ( KSDP ) (also Social Democratic Party of Korea [ SDPK ] called; Korean Choson Sahoeminjudang ) (until 1981 Korean Democratic Party, Korean Choson Minjudang ) is a 30,000 -strong North Korean political party. You must submit to the specifications of the Communist Party of Labour of Korea.
Party Leader ( formally Chairman of the Central Committee ), Kim Yong -dae.
Since 1982, the quarterly organ of the Central Committee of the KSDP Sahoeminjudang Choson in Korean language and under the title The Korean Social Democratic Party and KSDP says in English appears.
History
The Korean Social Democratic Party was founded on 3 November 1945 under the name Korean Democratic Party. The first chairman was the nationalist politician Cho Man-sik. As part of the consolidation of the communist state power in North Korea Cho Man-sik was discontinued in February 1946. The Democratic Party has been compromised as a result of supporters of the Communists under the later leader Kim Il-sung. Chairman was the former commander of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army Choi Jong -kun. His deputy was in the 1950s, Kang Jang -wook, an uncle of Kim Il-sung. The party was adjusted now staffed and programmatically to the ruling Communist Party of Labour of Korea ( WPK ). Undesirables members have been removed. In January 1981, renamed the Korean Social Democratic Party was.
Current situation
The KSDP has deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly, in which they - is part of the WPK dominated by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland - in addition to the national-religious Chondoistischen Ch'ŏngu party. Similarly, the so-called " block parties " in the GDR only to cause the appearance of a multi-party system, thereby providing the dictatorial system a democratic veneer serves the KSDP.
The party has a system of organization at all levels ( nation, province, city and district).
International Relations of the KSDP
During the GDR era, there were some contacts between the Korean Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party. On 22 August 2008 and on 26 March 2010, it adopted joint statements with the Democratic Workers' Party of South Korea.