The Workers' Party of North Korea (Korean: 북조선로동당; Hanja: 北朝鮮勞動黨) was a communist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949 and was a predecessor of the current Workers' Party of Korea. It was founded at a congress on 28–30 August 1946, by the merger of the northern branch of the Communist Party of Korea and the New People's Party of Korea.[1][2][3] Kim Tu-bong, the leader of the New People's Party, was elected Chairman of the party.