North Korea is a single-party state under a united front led by the Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ).

His son, Kim Jong-il, who had already assumed key positions in the government, succeeded as General-Secretary of the Korean Workers ' Party.

With the Cold War a thing of the past, the Korean Workers ' Party ( which was already largely powerless ) was made even more ornamental.

Broadcasting in North Korea is tightly controlled by the state and is used as a propaganda arm of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party.

Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.

The state and the Korean Workers ' Party control the production of literature and art.

" Aegukka ", almost unique among most North Korean patriotic songs, as it praises neither the Workers ' Party of Korea, nor Kim Il-sung or Kim Jong-il's cult of personality.

Most of the railroad's employees are members of the Korean Railroad Workers ' Union, which is frequently at odds with Korail management.

He became an alternative member of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ) Central Committee in October 1980, and chief of the Namhung Youth Chemical Combine Committee in July 1983.

His 38-year career in broadcasting included service with the U. S. Armed Forces Broadcast Network during the Korean War. In 1975, Stephens earned the Edward R. Murrow award for journalistic excellence in editorials for uncovering a scandal in the Montana Workers ' Compensation Program.

The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union ( KTU ) () is a labor union of teachers in South Korea.

While Park was a member of the South Korean Workers Party, the allegations concerning his involvement in a military cell were never substantiated.

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The agency portrays the putative views of the Workers ' Party of Korea and the North Korean government for foreign consumption.

In 1990 the composition of the SPA was 601 seats held by the Workers ' Party of Korea, 51 seats held by the Korean Social Democratic Party, 22 seats held by the Chondoist Chongu Party and 13 seats held by independents.

After Jin-seok escapes from a guard and Jin-tae tries to hold the anti-communists back from killing Young-shin, it is discovered she signed up for the communist Workers ' Party of Korea to get food for the family while saying that the South Korean government gave them nothing in the country's time of need.

The Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, formed on 22 July 1946, is a North Korean united front led by the Workers ' Party of Korea.

The three political parties of North Korea, the Workers ' Party of Korea, the Korean Social Democratic Party, and the Chondoist Chongu Party, all participate in the front, though almost all power rests with the Workers ' Party.

In a late-1993 meeting of the Korean Workers ' Party Central Committee, Kim Il-sung expressed his desire to quickly place a satellite into orbit, leading to the expansion of North Korea's nascent space program and the requirement for a space launch vehicle.

The North Korean parliamentary elections, 1962 reported a 100 % turnout and a 100 % vote for the Workers ' Party of Korea.

However, the flag of the Korean Workers ' Party includes a hammer representing industrial workers, a hoe representing agricultural workers, and a brush ( traditional writing-implement ) representing the intelligentsia.

The Korean Social Democratic Party ( KSDP ) is a political party in North Korea, allied with the ruling Workers ' Party of Korea.

* March 1 – Members of the Korea Railway Workers ' Union begin a strike action against Korean National Railroad ( Korail ).

It became the New Korean Party.

The two minor parties in the coalition are the Chondoist Chongu Party and the Korean Social Democratic Party ; they also have a few elected officials.

On 16 July 2012, North Korean state media reported that the Chief of General Staff of the Korean People's Army Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho had been relieved of all his Party duties, namely his Politburo Standing Committee membership, Politburo membership, and Party Central Military Commission vice-chairmanship, stating this move was due to unspecified illness.

In 2003, South Korean Unification Church members started a political party, " The Party for God, Peace, Unification, and Home.

His credits in this period include The Howerd Crowd ( 1952 ), Frankie Howerd's Korean Party, Nuts in May and The Frankie Howerd Show, as well as The Big Man ( 1954 ) starring Fred Emney and Edwin Styles.

After Stalin's death, Stalin's cult of personality was denounced at the 1956 Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, North Korean state authorities ended overt adulation of the Soviet leader.

A year later North Korea invaded South Korea and in 1951, during the Korean War, the Liberal government of Robert Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party of Australia, first by legislation that was declared invalid by the High Court, then by referendum to try to overcome the constitutional obstacles to that legislation, but the referendum was narrowly defeated.

In 1989, Doi, together with Naoto Kan, Keiko Chiba, Tomiichi Murayama and other 129 Japanese politicians from Japan Socialist Party, Socialist Democratic Federation and Komeito signed a petition to the South Korean President Roh Tae-woo for the release of former death row inmate including Sin Gwang-su who had kidnapped a Japanese in June 1980.

Formerly called the Millennium Democratic Party ( MDP ), or Saecheonnyeon Minju-dang ( 새천년민주당 in Korean ), it changed its name to the present form on May 6, 2005.

During the early 1950s, Tribune became the organ of the Bevanite left opposition to the Labour Party leadership, turning against America over its handling of the Korean War then arguing strongly against West German rearmament and nuclear arms.

The LDPD had contacts with Eastern European and Asian parties that represented the liberal ideology: Polish Democratic Party ( Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, SD ), the Czechoslovak Socialist Party ( Československá strana socialistická, CSS ), the Democratic Party of Vietnam and the Korean Democratic Party ( Chõson Sahoeminjudang, CS ).

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

Since the responsibilities of the NNSC have been much reduced over the past few years, only five people are still part of the Swiss delegation, which is located near the Korean DMZ.

* The American minister to China takes five warships to attempt to " open up " Korea, but his forces leave after exchanges of fire result in 250 Koreans dying and the Korean government still unwilling to make any concessions.

For example, most Korean men and women have adopted Western-style dress for daily wear, but still wear traditional hanboks on special occasions, like weddings and cultural holidays.

Although Japanese-born people of Korean ancestry are a significant segment of the Japanese population, they are still considered resident aliens because of their nationality.

Previous Korean " comfort women " are still protesting against the Japanese Government for compensation of their sufferings.

Although the Korean government was now stable, it was still a protectorate of Qing.

As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.

The company was still attempting to get the CF-100 into production at the time and, consequently, the Canadian government cancelled any further work on the C102 due to Korean War priorities: C. D. Howe demanded the project be stopped to increase production of the CF-100, so the second C102 prototype was scrapped in the plant in 1951, with the first relegated to photographic duties in the Flight Test Department.

The only Alderwood Manor buildings still in the same place as they were when they were built are the old Masonic Temple ( now a Korean church ) and Manor Hardware ( former schoolhouse in early 1900s ).

Traditionally, all CJK languages have no spaces: modern Chinese and Japanese ( except when written with little or no kanji ) still do not, but modern Korean uses spaces.

As tensions still exist on the Korean Peninsula and Korea is so heavily militarised, their air-defence network is amongst the strongest of a non-superpower.

Caltrops are still sometimes used in modern conflicts, such as during the Korean War, where Chinese troops, often wearing only light shoes, were particularly vulnerable.

In Okinawa, the cultural New Year is still celebrated as the contemporary Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese New Years.

Like the movie, the series was as much an allegory about the Vietnam War ( still in progress when the show began ) as it was about the Korean War.

However, there are a large number of Chinese-borrowed words in widespread usage in the North ( although written in hangul ), and hanja characters still appear in special contexts, such as recent North Korean dictionaries.

Hanja are still taught in separate courses in South Korean high schools, apart from the normal Korean language curriculum.

Things have changed, however, and while these rules are still largely followed, some people have given names that are native Korean words ( popular ones include haneul — meaning " sky " — and iseul — meaning " morning dew ").

The provincial boundaries closely reflected major regional and dialect boundaries, and are still often referred to in Korean today simply as the Eight Provinces ( Paldo ).

Many are also decorative garden trees, notably Korean Fir and Fraser Fir, which produce brightly coloured cones even when very young, still only 1 – 2 m ( 3 – 6 ft ) tall.

A slightly changed version of MR was the official system for Korean in South Korea from 1984 to 2000, and yet a different modification is still the official system in North Korea.

However, general usage in Taiwan still refer to North Korean as Běihán ( " North Han ") and South Korean as Nánhán ( " South Han ") while use of Cháoxiǎn () is generally limited to ancient Korea.