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Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea

defunct offices within the Workers's Party of Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ105571941 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) were offices that existed within the WPK between 1949–66 and 2016–21. The office of "Chairman of the Central Committee" existed between 1949–66 and the office of "Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea" existed in 2016–21. The deputy to the Chairman, the officeholder of Vice Chairman of the Central Committee existed in 1949–66 and 2016–21.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea” as defunct offices within the Workers's Party of Korea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chairman, Vice and Workers' can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as defunct offices within the Workers's Party of Korea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105571941. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.