First Party Organization-Society for Rallying Comrades

 Pyongyang, July 3 (KCNA) -- Ninety-six years have passed since the formation of the first party organization-the society for rallying comrades, the origin of the Workers' Party of Korea.
At the historic Kalun Meeting (June 30-July 2, 1930), President Kim Il Sung set forth the original policy of founding the party by forming a basic party organization first and steadily expanding it.
On July 3, the next day after the Kalun Meeting, the President formed the first party organization with revolutionaries of the new generation.
He took the first step of the revolution from winning comrades and saw to it that the name of the party organization was called the society for rallying comrades by reflecting the aspiration and will to advance and accomplish the Korean revolution by making and rallying comrades who would share their destiny with him.
At that time when flunkeyism and dogmatism were flooded, the first party organization- the society for rallying comrades formed with the enthusiastic young people of the new generation was the embryo and seed of the WPK and an organization which is of parent-body significance in forming and expanding the basic party organizations.
The President wrote in his reminiscences "With the Century":
Indescribable indeed were our joy and pride as we solemnly pledged to the times and history that, being party members of Korea with their own party organization, we would devote our lives to the revolution.
Since the formation of the first party organization, the struggle of the Korean revolutionaries for the building of an independent party has dynamically advanced in the spirit of the great anti-Japanese war.
The valuable successes and experience gained in the days of the anti-Japanese war served as a precious asset and solid foundation for the foundation of the WPK in a short span of time after the national liberation from Japan's colonial rule (August 15, 1945). -0-