Socialist Patriotic Youth League

Socialist Patriotic Youth League
사회주의애국청년동맹
ChairmanMun Chol
Founded17 January 1946
HeadquartersPyongyang, North Korea
IdeologyKimilsungism–Kimjongilism Communism
Mother partyWorkers' Party of Korea
International affiliationWorld Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
NewspaperChongnyon Jonwi
Websiteyouth.rep.kp
Socialist Patriotic Youth League
Chosŏn'gŭl
사회주의애국청년동맹
Hancha
社會主義愛國靑年同盟
Revised RomanizationSahoejuuiaegukcheongnyeondongmaeng
McCune–ReischauerSahoejuŭiaegukch'ŏngnyŏndongmaeng

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League is the main North Korean youth organization. Directly under the party Central Committee, it is the only mass organization expressly mentioned in the charter of the Workers' Party of Korea.[not verified in body] Youth under 15 may join the Young Pioneer Corps, itself a part of the larger Korean Children's Union. The organization, modeled after the Komsomol in the former Soviet Union, includes all North Koreans without party membership between the ages of 15 and 30, although married women who opt to become housewives are transferred to the Socialist Women's Union.[1] Officially, the guiding ideology of the organization is Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism.[2]

  1. ^ Lankov, A. N., Kwak, I., & Cho, C. (2012). The organizational life: Daily surveillance and daily resistance in north korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 12(2), 193–214,309–310. doi:10.1017/S1598240800007839
  2. ^ "Socialist Patriotic Youth League". Naenara. Retrieved 9 January 2023.

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