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HISTORY. Following the Second World War Soviet forces occupied northern Korea in Aug. 1945 and established a Communist-led Provisional Government. In 1946 the Korean Workers’ Party was formed from Communist groups. On 25 Aug. 1948 the Communists organized elections for a Supreme People’s Assembly, both in Soviet-occupied North Korea and in US-occupied South Korea. A People’s Democratic Republic was proclaimed on 9 Sept. 1948.
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Further Reading
North Korea Directory. Tokyo, annual since 1988
Kihl, Y. W., Politics and Policies in Divided Korea. Boulder, 1984
Park, J. K. and Kim, J.-G., The Politics of North Korea. Boulder, 1979
Scalapino, R. A. and Lee, C.-S., Communism in Korea. Univ. of California Press, 1972—and Kim, J-Y. (eds.), North Korea Today: Strategic and Domestic Issues. Univ. of California Press, 1983
Sun, D.-S., Korean Communism, 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System. Honolulu, 1981
National statistical office: Central Statistics Bureau, Pyongyang.
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Hunter, B. (1995). North Korea. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271241_98
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