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List of national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea

Party congresses

The following is a list of national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea. This article defines national meetings as party congresses () and conferences of party representatives ().

The Party Congress is nominally the highest body of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) according to its charter. The charter stated specifically that it should convene at least every fifth year; however, the congress has historically never managed to be convened in that time frame. There was a gap of 36 years between the 6th Congress and the 7th Congress. However, two party conferences were convened in the period 2010–2012. The 3rd Party Conference in 2010 formally deleted the five-year clause from the party charter, but it was later restored at the 8th Congress in 2021.

The Congress hears the reports of central authorities, makes amendments to the party's charter, sets the party's political line, elects the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, elects the Central Committee and elects the Central Auditing Commission. The 1st Plenary Session of the elected Central Committee then elects the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Central Military Commission and other bodies of the Central Committee. Despite this, as Fyodor Tertitskiy notes, "When it comes to the supreme leader of North Korea, it is not his position that makes him a leader; it is the person who makes a position one of leadership. Kim Jong Un may be called supreme commander, first chairman or even God-Emperor — it does not matter; he is in charge by right of bloodline." For example, Kim Jong Un's election as Chairman of the WPK at the 7th Party Congress did not mean that said Congress was previously empowered to make decisions independent of Kim Jong Un.

The Party Conferences functions as a smaller scale version of a Party Congress and serves as the Leninist counterpart to an extraordinary general meeting. It is typically convened to introduce new leadership or policy directions between regular congresses. As such meetings are less formal and less costly to organize, they are often held when a full Congress is unnecessary.

Keys

Abbreviations
CC
FM
AM
Political Report
Charter
PMR
ND

Meetings

Congresses

Congress	Duration
(start—end)	Delegates	CC
elected	Political Report
(presented by)	Charter	PMR	Location
[1st Congress](1st-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-north-korea)
3 days
1946 election	28 August
–
30 August 1946	801	[43](1st-central-committee-of-the-workers-party-of-north-korea)	Kim Il Sung	Adopted	336,399	Pyongyang
[2nd Congress](2nd-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-north-korea)
4 days
1947–1948 election	27 March
–
30 March 1948	999	63	Kim Il Sung	Amendment	750,000	Pyongyang
[3rd Congress](3rd-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
7 days
1955–1956 election	23 April
–
29 April 1956	916	71 FM
–
43 AM	Kim Il Sung	Amendment	1,164,945	Pyongyang
[4th Congress](4th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
8 days
1960–1961 election	11 September
–
18 September 1961	1,657 VD
–
93 NVD	85 FM
–
50 AM	Kim Il Sung	Amendment	1,311,563	Pyongyang
[5th Congress](5th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
12 days
1969–1970 election	2 November
–
13 November 1970	1,734	117 FM
–
55 AM	Kim Il Sung	Amendment	1,600,000	Pyongyang
[6th Congress](6th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
5 days
1979–1980 election	10 October
–
14 October 1980	3,062 VD
–
137 NVD	[145 FM
–
103 AM](6th-central-committee-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)	Kim Il Sung	Amendment	ND	April 25 House of Culture
Pyongyang
[7th Congress](7th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
4 days
2016 election	6 May
–
9 May 2016	3,467 VD
–
200 NVD	[129 FM
–
106 AM](7th-central-committee-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)	Kim Jong Un	Amendment	ND	April 25 House of Culture
Pyongyang
*[8th Congress](8th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)*
6 days
2020–21 election	5 January
–
10 January 2021	TBD	[139 FM
–
111 AM](8th-central-committee-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)	Kim Jong Un	Amendment	TBD	April 25 House of Culture
Pyongyang

Conferences

Conference	Duration
(start—end)	CC
elected	Charter
(amendments)	Decisions
[1st Conference](1st-conference-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
4 days
1958 election	3 March
–
6 March 1958	—	—	1) "On First Five-year People’s Economic Development Plan"
2) "On Further Strengthening Party Unity and Cohesion"
3) On "organizational issues"
[2nd Conference](2nd-conference-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
4 days
1966 election	3 October
–
6 October 1966	—	—	1) "Current Situation and Our Party's Tasks"
2) "On Imminent Tasks of Socialist Economic Construction"
3) "On the Vietnam Issue"
[3rd Conference](3rd-conference-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
1 day
2010 election	28 September 2010	124 FM
–
105 AM	Amendment	1) "Decision To Unchangingly Elect High Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il as the WPK General Secretary"
2) "Decision on Revising the WPK Charter"
3) "Election of members to the central leadership organs of the WPK"
[4th Conference](4th-conference-of-the-workers-party-of-korea)
1 day
2012 election	11 April 2012	—	Amendment	ND

References

Specific

Bibliography

Articles and journals:

General

Information on congresses & conferences, number of delegates, number of people elected to CCs, party membership, the individual who presented the Political Report and information on when the congress was convened can be found in these sources:

References

(1993). "North Korea: A Country Study". [[Library of Congress Country Studies]].
(2011). "North Korea Under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change". Praeger Pub Text.
(10 January 2021). "Historical Event Laying Foundation for Developing Glorious Party. Fifth-day Sitting of 8th WPK Congress Held". [[Korean Central News Agency]].
Tertitskiy, Fyodor. (2 May 2016). "What happens at a North Korean Party Conference or Congress". [[NK News]].
https://www.nknews.org/2014/12/the-first-party-conference-and-purge-of-58/
Frank, Ruediger. (5 October 2010). "Hu Jintao, Deng Xiaoping or Another Mao Zedong? Power Restructuring in North Korea". U.S.-Korea Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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