ACTIVITIES OF THE NORTH KOREAN LABOR PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400120007-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Activities of the North Korean
Labor Party
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR. 6 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
the Kytnggi Province branch of the North Korean Labor
Party held a meeting at the party office in Kaesong to discuss the
rebuilding of the South Korean,La'bor Party, It was decided to send two
agents-from each county of Ky'zggi'Provincejtill under North Korean
control to South Korean-held counties of Ky5nggi Province to build up
the PK14P. The plan was to be worked out in conjunction with the Kaes ng
office of the Ministry of Social Security and was to be financed by the
Financial Bureau of the Provincial NKLP,
the Hwanghae Province branch of the NKLP held a meeting at
the house of CHU.Ying-hwan (2612/3144/3562), a school teacher, at Sin-
ch?an -n (N 38.31, E 125-48), (YC-1+466), The meeting was led by 0 Ik-kyo
(0702/4135/2+03) and YOM Kil-my 1(1070/0679/ ? ) and was attended by
35 people. The tax-in-kind for the fall was discussed-and it was a .freed
to collect50 percent of. the crops as taxes in accordance with the
instructions from the Ministry of Agriculture. It was also decided that
only those who had been candidates for NKLP membership for six months could
be examined for final membership, that only party activity, and not personal
backgr nd, should be considered when approving a candidate-for membership,
that four or more regular party members must endorse the candidate, and
that the final examination should be conducted by the political committee
of the,: county party. The meeting reso~.'vedl that it was the responsibility
af' each county'' ,political committee to select NKLP members f6r the party
political school.
a meeting of the Naesong-myoh (N 37-58, g 125-51) (YC-5006)
branch of the NKL.,P decided to evacuate families of NKLP members, and
in some cases families of North'Korean army personnel killed in action,
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from the Naesong-my&4n area to above the 39th Parallel. T2ese people were
to be moved eventually to Chagang Province and North P?yongan Province.
The first of three phases in the evacuation was to be the removal of
2,000 families beginning 21 October. On 24+ October three North Korean
army trucks were sent by the Naesong People's Committee to move 150
families.
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