People's Republic of Korea

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The People's Republic of Korea (Korean: 조선인민공화국) 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 6 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 democratization of society and the economy. In the south, the US military government declared the PRK to be illegitimate on 12 December 1945. In the north, under the auspice of the Soviet military government, the Korean Worker's Party led by Kim Il Sung took over the People's Committee by incorporating them into the political structure of the emerging Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, and by exerting an ever-increasing direct influence on the agenda and structure of other smaller political parties (such as the KDP and the DIP...

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