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Korean Workers' Party Congresses

 A collection documenting the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) Congresses held in August 1946, March 1948, April 1956, September 1961, November 1970, and October 1980. (Image: Kim Il-sung, the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), with his son and chosen successor Kim Jong-il at the 6th WPK Congress, October 1980.)

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April 23, 1956

Record of a Speech delivered by Kim Il Sung at the Third Congress of the Korean Workers' Party

Kim Il Sung draws on Khrushchev's speech at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in his own speech at the Third Congress of the Korean Workers' Party, and speaks to the successes of the Three-Year Plan and discusses the implementation of a similar Five-Year Plan.

November 1980

A Brief Introduction and Assessment of the Juche Ideology

Introduction to the Juche ideology as formulated at the KWP’s 6th Congress

November 2, 1970

Kim Il Sung, 'Report on the Work of the Central Committee to the Fifth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea'

Kim Il Sung's speech to the Fifth Congress of the Korean Workers' Party.

August 29, 1946

Kim Il Sung, 'For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses: Report to the Inaugural Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea'

Kim Il Sung's speech at the 1st Congress of the Korean Workers' Party.

October 5, 1956

Letter from Ri Sang-jo to the Central Committee of the Korean Workers Party

Letter from Ri Sang-jo to CPSU Central Committee in which Ri writes about his disagreement with the decisions made at Korean Workers' Party Central Committee Plenum in August 1956.
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