Chondoist Chongu Party
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Chondoist Chongu Party
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| Chairwoman of the Central Committee | Vacant |
| Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee | Yun Jong-ho |
| Founder | Kim Tarhyŏn |
| Founded | February 5, 1946 |
| Headquarters | Pyongyang |
| Religion | Chondoism |
| National affiliation | Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland |
| Supreme People's Assembly |
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| Chondoist Chongu Party | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 천도교청우당 |
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| Hancha | 天道敎靑友黨 |
| Revised Romanization | Cheondogyo Cheongudang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'ŏndogyo Ch'ŏngudang |
The Chondoist Chongu Party is a united front party in North Korea and is labeled as democratic by the government of the country. The party was founded on February 5, 1946, by a group of followers of the Chondogyo (or Ch'ŏndogyo) religion. The founding-leader of the party was Kim Tarhyŏn.
The party is headquartered in the capital Pyongyang.
The Chondogyo movement was founded in response to the Christian missionary activities in Korea in the end of the nineteenth century. The Chondogyo movement became a hotbed of Korean nationalism, and Chondogyo farmers took active part in the Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894 and the movement played an important role in the March 1st Movement in 1919. The communist parties of the Soviet Union and Korea perceived Chondogyo as an "utopian peasant movement".
By 1945 Chondogyo was the second largest religion in northern Korea, with 1.5 million believers. The Chondoist Chongu Party assembled 98,000 members after a few months of existence, and was larger (in membership) than the Communist Party. In December 1946 it had 204,387 members.
On July 22, 1946, the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland was formed as a united front. The Chondoist Chongu Party was one of the four parties included in it. Thus the subordination of the party under the leadership of the communist party was formalized.
In the 1946–1947 elections to people's committees, village people's committees and myŏn people's committees, about 5.3 percent of the 70,454 elected deputies belonged to the Chondoist Chongu Party. Kim Tarhyŏn became one of two deputy chairmen of the People's Assembly (the national parliament). During the first session of the People's Assembly a Chondoist Chongu Party deputy, Kim Yun'gŏl, held a critical speech against the non-compliance with laws passed by the people's committees during the land reform process. Kim Yun'gŏl was fiercely attacked, and he retracted his statement.
When the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was constituted in 1948, the Chondoist Chongu Party obtained 16.5 percent of the seats in the Supreme People's Assembly.
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