General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea is the title given to the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea.
From 1946 to 1966, the party′s leader was called Chairman of the Central Committee. Since 1966, the year the 2nd Party Conference reformed the structure of the Party, the Central Committee, usually at its first plenum after a party congress, elected a leader called the General Secretary of the Central Committee; the post was held by Kim Il-sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-il from 1997 to 2011. Although the Party Rules stipulated that the General Secretary was to be elected by the Central Committee, Kim Jong-il was proclaimed General Secretary by a joint notice of the Central Committee and Central Military Commission on 8 October 1997 following resolutions proposing Kim Jong-il's election adopted by the provincial Party organizations; he was then re-elected directly by the 3rd Party Conference in September 2010.
The 2012 Party Conference "decided to hold Kim Jong Il … in high esteem as eternal general secretary of the WPK …" and therefore elected the new leader Kim Jong-un First Secretary of the WPK.
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