The Workers’ Party of Korea is a revolutionary party of a Juche type which was founded by President Kim Il Sung on October 10, Juche 34(1945) and is now led by General Secretary
Kim Jong Il.

The Party inherits the revolutionary traditions established in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and is guided solely by the Juche idea in its activities.

Its immediate objective is to attain the complete victory of socialism in the northern half of Korea and carry out the tasks of national liberation, people’s democratic revolution throughout the country; its ultimate goal is to model the whole society on the Juche idea.

The WPK is the political General Staff which organizes and leads the revolutionary struggle and construction work in Korea in a coordinated way and assumes full responsibility for the destiny of the entire Korean people.