The Social Democratic Party of Korea (SDPK, cor. 사회 민주당 ) is one of the three officially existing parties in the DPRK (until 1981 - the Democratic Party of Korea ) [1] .
| Social Democratic Party of Korea | |
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| cor. 사회 민주당 | |
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| Leader | Kim Yong Dae |
| Founder | Cho Man Sik |
| Founding date | November 3, 1945 |
| Headquarters |  North Korea , Pyongyang |
| Ideology | social democracy , democratic socialism |
| Allies and blocks | TPK , PMDNP , EDOF |
| Number of members | 30,000 |
| Places in vns | 50/687 |
| Site | uriminzokkiri.com |
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According to the DPRK media, the SDPK is a democratic political party that unites medium and small entrepreneurs and merchants, artisans, some of the peasants, and also Christians. As its leading ideal, it advances national social democracy, which meets the historical conditions and national peculiarities of Korea, and considers independence, independence, democracy, peace and the protection of human rights to be its main political credo [2] .
The party leader is Kim Yong De (deputy chairman of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme National Council). The number of members is 30 thousand (2002). [3]
Korean studies A.N. Lankov notes that today is completely under the control of TPC [4] .
History
Created on November 3, 1945 by the well-known leader of the nationalist movement Cho Man Sik as the Democratic Party. Cho Cho Man Sik in the party was Choi Yong Gon - a former student of Cho Man Sik and, at the same time, an ally of Kim Il Sung and a prominent member of the partisan movement in Manchuria . At the head of the secretariat was the former communist guerrilla Kim Chak . For the first two months, the Democratic Party was practically the only visible political force in the north of Korea.
After the arrest of Cho Man Sik in early 1946 due to his disagreement to support the results of the Moscow meeting at the end of December 1945 , many of his supporters left the party. February 24, 1946 in Pyongyang opened the I Congress of the Democratic Party. On it, Cho Man Sik was declared a "reactionary", "an American and Japanese agent," and all of his circle of people who still remained in the leadership of the party were deprived of posts. [5] When the National Assembly of North Korea was formed in February 1947, out of 9 members of Presidium 2 formally belonged to the Democratic Party.
In 1948, the cleansing of the ranks of the party, which lasted about six months , took place, during which "reactionary elements" were removed from it. Party cards were introduced into the party, a strict hierarchy of committees was established. The new orders were formalized in December 1948 by the decisions of the Third Congress of the Democratic Party, which also adopted a new party program and charter.
In the course of tightening the political regime of the DPRK in 1958, the party leadership was arrested. In the elections of March 16, 1959 , for the first time in the entire history of the DPRK, the candidates from the Democratic Party and the Party of the Young Friends of the Holy Way were not nominated.
Ideology
Theoretically, the party adheres to social democracy , as well as the corresponding historical conditions and national peculiarities of the DPRK, its main political motto is “independence, sovereignty, democracy, peace and protection of human rights.”
Gradually, the party is moving away from this ideology in favor of Juche , the official ideology of the DPRK. The party is part of the Democratic Front for the reunification of the Motherland, along with two other political parties in the DPRK
Notes
- ↑ Irgebaev, A.T. , and Timonin, A.A. 'DPRK. Directory ' . - M .: Politizdat , 1988
- ↑ Korean policy Archived August 19, 2009.
- ↑ DPRK. General information-2002
- ↑ Lan'kov A.N. The rout of non-communist parties in the DPRK (1945 - 1959) // DPRK yesterday and today. Informal history of North Korea. - M .: East-West, 2004. - P. 148. - 448 p. - ISBN 5-478-00060-4 .
- ↑ Lankov A. N. North Korea: yesterday and today