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CO26-59
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Revised Rules of the Workers’ Party of Korea
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2026.09.04.
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Oh Gyeong-Seob Senior Research Fellow, North Korean Policy Research Division
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| North Korea revised the Rules of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) at the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, held from February 19 to 25, 2026. The revised Party Rules went beyond modifying and supplementing the operation of Party organizations, strengthening Kim Jong Un’s authority and power by transforming the WPK from “Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s Party” into “Kim Jong Un’s Party.”
The revised Party Rules have three major political implications. First, they strengthened Kim Jong Un’s authority and power by institutionally underpinning his monolithic leadership system. Second, they reflect the new strategy toward South Korea, namely an “adversarial two-state relationship” and a relationship between “belligerent states at war.” Third, they reaffirmed socialism and the construction of communism as the objectives of the Workers’ Party of Korea. |
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