New People's Party of Korea

The party was formed on 16 February 1946 by Kim Tu-bong and Korean Communists who had been exiled in China. It was formerly known as the Independence League. On 22 July 1946 the Communist Party of North Korea joined with the New People's Party, the Democratic Party and the Party of Young Friends of the Celestial Way (supporters of an influential religious sect) to form the United Democratic National Front which put all of North Korea's parties under the "leading role" of the Communists. Then, based on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's direct orders, on 29 July 1946, the Communist Party of North Korea and the New People's Party held a joint plenum of the Central Committees of both parties and agreed to merge into a single entity. On 30 June 1949 the Workers' Party of North Korea and Workers' Party of South Korea merged to form the Workers' Party of Korea. ==See also==