Download or read book The Korean Workers Party written by Chong-Sik Lee and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents of the Fourth Congress of the Workers Party of Korea written by Chosŏn Nodongdang. Taehoe. 4th, Pʻyŏngyang, Korea, 1961 and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents and Materials of The Third Congress of the Workers Party of Korea April 23 29 1956 written by Chosŏn Nodongdang. Taehoe and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Workers Party of Korea written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the party and its activities *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 2014, the International Space Station unleashed a series of photographs that had netizens around the globe simultaneously slapping their cheeks in disbelief for more reasons than one. For starters, the world was astounded by the crisp definition and stellar resolution of the images captured by the space agency's NightPod lenses, which showed striking satellite shots of the world at nighttime, illuminated by its dazzling city lights. But it was a close-up snap of the China-North Korea border that elicited reactions far greater than the rest, for the image, as terrific as it was, was equally troubling. Backed by a time-lapse video of the area, the images show an enormous patch of pitch-blackness - roughly 47,000 square miles of it, to be precise - flanked by 2 sweeping stretches of gold, the coruscating clusters of light marking the largest cities in the land. On one side lay the shimmering Chinese territories, and the other, the glittering grounds of South Korea. The patch of black in question was so dark it could very well be mistaken for an extension of either the Yellow Sea or the Sea of Japan. North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism, but the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themselves in. Statistics show that the average South Korean uses up to 10,162 kilowatt hours of power per year, whereas their neighbors in the north consume only 739. This is only one amongst a slew of stumbling blocks affecting the state, impeding it from proper progress. So why is North Korea so starkly different from its neighbors when nothing more but mere borders separate them? A tyrannical lineage secured by nepotism. An entire nation indoctrinated by chilling, mindboggling propaganda, molded by fear and forced ignorance. Mass purges doled out seemingly on whims, without fair trials. Unparalleled paranoia and cold-blooded assassinations left and right, seemingly around every curve and corner. An impoverished sphere of barren wastelands inhabited by malnourished masses, orbiting a world glittering with the gross opulence and superfluous riches of the elite. These sound like the elements of a particularly perilous period of autocracy enforced by some mad monarch of a bygone era, or perhaps a generic blurb for a far-fetched thriller set in a dystopian future. Alas, the description matches the modern state of North Korea almost flawlessly. For close to 7 decades and counting, the notorious Kim family has been subjected to a never-ending stream of shocking scandals and relentless ridicule. That being said, this frightful bloodline has managed to maintain absolute and all-encompassing power over the northern neck of the Korean peninsula. The reigns of these related tyrants are said to be so horrid that 2,000 intrepid souls risk their necks each year to escape from the suffocating grip of the state. And while many attribute the state's troubling antics to the controversial Kim dynasty, it takes an entire team to keep the 25 million oppressed North Koreans in check. This lesser-known, but all the more significant constituent of this intriguing system is the Choson Rodongdang, otherwise known as the "Workers' Party of Korea," the ruling political party of the state. The Workers' Party of Korea: The History and Legacy of the Political Party that Founded and Rules North Korea examines the party's predecessors and the events that led up to its formation, as well as its inner workings and the behind-the-scene operations of the infamous hermit kingdom. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Workers' Party of Korea like never before.
Download or read book Kim Jong Il written by Central Committee The Workers' Party of Korea and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers'Party of Korea, is the most faithful successor to the revolutionarycause of Juche1, the Supreme Commander of the revolutionaryarmed forces of Korea and the great leader of theWorkers' Party of Korea and the Korean people. In the firstdays of his revolutionary activities he set it as his lifetime taskto complete the cause of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great leaderof the Korean people, and has scored immortal exploits or theParty and the revolution, for the country and the people.The historical course of his leadership over the Workers'Party of Korea has covered the arduous and trying period inwhich the internal and external situation of the revolution wasvery complex and the Party and the revolution were faced withtasks more difficult and enormous than ever before. In thearduous days when the fierce class struggle between socialismand capitalism was waged amid the protracted confrontationwith the allied forces of imperialism of the world, ComradeKim Jong Il, as the closest comrade and most faithful assistantof Comrade Kim Il Sung, has always held fast to the banner ofsocialism, the banner of the revolution, and turned misfortunesinto blessings and adversities into favourable conditions, thusleading the Korean revolution to continuous upsurge and brilliantvictory.Through energetic ideological and theoretical activities hesystematized Comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary ideologyinto the ideology, theory and methodology of Juche, developingit to be the immortal revolutionary banner of the era ofindependence. He also worked out powerful ideological andtheoretical weapon for the Korean revolution by giving scientificand theoretical answers to the urgent problems arising inthe revolution and construction.He advanced the idea that the working-class party mustbecome the party of the leader and put the idea into practice. Inthis way he brought about a fundamental change in the building,activities and work of the Party, strengthened the Workers'Party of Korea founded by Comrade Kim Il Sung to be arevolutionary party of the Juche type and improved its militantefficiency and leadership.In command of the overall revolutionary armed forces hedeveloped the Korean People's Army to be the genuine armedforces of the Party and the leader and to be the invincible revolutionaryarmed forces that staunchly safeguard the Party andthe cause of socialism by force of arms and turned the countryinto an impregnable fortress in which the entire population areunder arms.He put forward a fresh line to imbue the whole society withthe Juche idea2 and stepped up the three revolutions-ideological,technological and cultural-strengthening the singleheartedunity of the revolutionary ranks to be invincible. Heushered in a new history of radical turn and brilliant floweringin the overall economic and cultural construction.Sharing joy and sorrow with the people at all times andthrough genuine popular politics, the benevolent politics, hehas made the whole country a large revolutionary family inwhich all people are united around the Party and the leader. Hehas also shown deep concern to providing the Korean peoplewith worthwhile and happy lives.Through tireless revolutionary activities spanning over 30years he ushered in a new era of prosperity of theKim Il Sung's nation for Korea.The editorial board publishes Comrade Kim Jong Il's Brief History to help those who want to know the history of Comrade Kim Jong Il's activities.
Download or read book Korean Workers written by Hagen Koo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation.
Download or read book On the Building of the Workers Party of Korea written by Il-sŏng Kim and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real North Korea written by Andrei Lankov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
Download or read book The Dawn of War in South Korea 1947 1950 written by Kyu-hyun Jo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analytical account of the April Third Massacre in Korea, a bloody confrontation between supporters of the Syngman Rhee Administration and those suspected (largely incorrectly) of being Communists, or members of the South Korean Workers' Party—the second largest Communist Party after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. As a result, some 80,000 villagers, fishermen, and policemen were killed. The book, drawing from a wide array of primary sources, ranging from South Korean governmental records, memoranda, memoirs, and recently unclassified documents, examines the role of the South Korean Workers' Party in the April Third Massacre on Jeju and how it shaped the origins of the Korean War. The author maps these origins of the Korean War from the outbreak of the April Third Massacre and through the ensuing chain of violence which included the Yo-su and Sun-ch'on Massacres of October 1948, engulfing the peninsula until 1949. Of interest to all scholars studying modern Korea, it is particularly relevant to historians focused on the Korean War, as well as political scientists and international relations experts interested in East Asian conflicts.
Download or read book The Workers Party of Korea is a Juche type Revolutionary Party which Inherited the Glorious Tradition of the DIU October 17 1982 written by Chŏng-il Kim and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Revolution written by Brian Hanley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of politics, trade unionism and media - many still operating at the highest levels of Irish public life - passed though the ranks of this secretive movement, which never achieved its objectives but had a lasting influence on the landscape of Irish politics. 'A vibrant, balanced narrative' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times Books of the Year 'An indispensable handbook' Maurice Hayes, Irish Times 'Hugely impressive' Irish Mail on Sunday 'Excellent' Sunday Business Post
Download or read book Historical Experience of Building the Workers Party of Korea written by Il-sŏng Kim and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Misunderstood Friendship written by Zhihua Shen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence. In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.
Download or read book Every Falling Star written by Sungju Lee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Download or read book Marked for Life written by Robert M. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Workers Party of Korea written by Il-sŏng Kim and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
