Worker-Peasant Red Guards
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The Worker-Peasant Red Guards, also translated as Workers and Peasants' Red Militia, is a paramilitary force in North Korea. It is a reserve force responsible for civil defense and providing additiona
Worker-Peasant Red Guards at the Samjiyon Grand Monument (삼지연대기념비).
Worker-Peasant Red Guards in Pyongyang during the 2013 Day of the Foundation of the Republic.
Workers' Party of Korea
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The Workers' Party of Korea is the ruling party of North Korea. Founded in 1949 from a merger between the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea, the WPK is the oldest act
Worker-Peasant Red Guards
…of establishment is 1959. The name Worker-Peasant Red Guards appeared at the military parade commemorating the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea on 10 October 2010, and thereafter North Korea began calling it the Worker-Peasant Red Guards. The WPRG is a reserve force militia organized on a…
Propaganda mosaic depicting Kim Il Sung's first public speech given in Pyongyang in September 1945, after the liberation of Korea from Japanese occupation.
Although Kim Jong Il headed the WPK with no pretence of following the party rules, it was revitalized at the 3rd Conference at the end of his rule.
The Monument to Party Founding in Pyongyang, erected in 1995
Kim Jong Un became the leader of the party following his father's death in 2011.