Since the Soviet-style Communist Party was a core element in the political structure of any communist state, this system was copied across the entire communist camp. North Korea, where the party was once created under a close watch of the Soviet generals, and where Soviet citizens of the Korean extraction initially took key positions in the party organization and personnel management sections, the emulation was especially thorough. Even now the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) has a strong imprint from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, even though this debt, like many similar debts, is never acknowledged.
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