WThe 1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea (WPNK) was elected at the 1st WPNK Congress held in August 1946. It consisted of 43 members, and remained active until the 2nd WPNK Congress when the 2nd Central Committee was elected. Thirteen were members of the Domestic faction, twelve from the Yan'an faction, six from the Soviet faction, four from Kim Il-sung's Guerrilla faction, and six others could not be classified. Throughout its two years existence, the 1st Central Committee held 12 plenary sessions.
WThe 1st Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea (WPNK) was held in Pyongyang, North Korea, from 28–30 August 1946, and established the WPNK. The congress is the highest organ of the party, and is stipulated to be held every four years. A total of 801 delegates represented the party's 336,399 members. The 1st Central Committee, elected by the congress, elected Kim Tu-bong as WPNK Chairman, Kim Il-sung and Chu Yong-ha as deputy chairmen.
WElections of the provincial, city and county people's committees were held in North Korea on November 3, 1946.
WThe People's Republic of Korea (PRK) was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II. It was proclaimed on 12 September 1945, as Korea was being divided into two occupation zones, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south. Based on a network of people's committees, it presented a program of radical social change. In the south, the US military government outlawed the PRK on 12 December 1945, while in the north, the Soviet authorities co-opted the committees into the structure of the emerging Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
WThe People's Committee of North Korea was a provisional government governing the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula from 1947 until 1948.
WThe Provisional People's Committee of North Korea was the provisional government of North Korea.
WThe Soviet Civil Administration (SCA) functioned as the occupying government of northern Korea from October 3, 1945 until the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948 although it governed concurrently after the setup of the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea in 1946. It was the administrative structure that the Soviet Union used to govern what would become North Korea following the division of Korea. Terentii Shtykov was the main proponent of setting up a centralized structure to coordinate Korean People's Committees. The setup was officially recommended by General Ivan Chistyakov and headed by General Andrei Romanenko in 1945 and General Nikolai Lebedev in 1946.