Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
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Workers' Party of Korea emblem
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Supreme organ
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| The Central Committee Building Pyongyang, North Korea |
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Coordinates: 39°0′57″N 125°44′26″E / 39.01583°N 125.74056°E
The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (Korean: 조선로동당 중앙위) is the highest party body between WPK national meetings. According to WPK rules, the Central Committee is elected by the party congress and the party conference can be conferred the right to renew its membership composition. In practice, the Central Committee has the ability to dismiss and appoint new members without consulting with the wider party at its own plenary sessions.
The 1st Central Committee was elected at the 1st WPK Congress in 1946. It was composed of 43-members. The numbers of Central Committee members have increased since then, with the 7th Congress in 2017 electing 235-members. Non-voting members, officially referred to as alternate members at the present, was introduced at the 2nd Congress.
The Central Committee convenes at least once a year for a plenary session ("meeting"), and shall function as a top forum for discussion about relevant policy issues. It operates on the principle of the Monolithic Ideological System and the Great Leader theory. The role of the Central Committee has varied throughout history. In its early history until the August Faction Incident it was a forum in which different factions competed. Since then it has generally exercises power through formal procedures defined in the party rules, the ability for it to affect outcomes of national-level personnel decisions is non-existent, as that function has generally been, in practice, carried out by leader, the Kim family and the Politburo. Nonetheless, Central Committee plenums function as venues whereby policy is formally implemented and public announcements made. Decisions are released publicly in the form of "resolutions" or "decisions".
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