The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Congress_of_the_Workers'_Party_of_Korea" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea">6th Congress of the Workers' Party</a> ended, having anointed North Korean President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kim Il Sung">Kim Il Sung</a>'s son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong_Il" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kim Jong Il">Kim Jong Il</a> as his successor.<sup about="#mwt78" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_14#cite_note-12" id="mwASY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASc">[12]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt82" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_14#cite_note-13" id="mwASg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASk">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt75" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFKim1982">Kim, Nam-Sik (Spring–Summer 1982). "North Korea's Power Structure and Foreign Relations: an Analysis of the Sixth Congress of the KWP*". <i id="mwB5A"><a class="new" data-mw-i18n='{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["The Journal of East Asian Affairs"]}}' href="./The_Journal_of_East_Asian_Affairs?action=edit&amp;redlink=1" id="mwB5E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Journal of East Asian Affairs" typeof="mw:LocalizedAttrs">The Journal of East Asian Affairs</a></i>. <b id="mwB5I">2</b> (1). <a class="new" data-mw-i18n='{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["Institute for National Security Strategy"]}}' href="./Institute_for_National_Security_Strategy?action=edit&amp;redlink=1" id="mwB5M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Institute for National Security Strategy" typeof="mw:LocalizedAttrs">Institute for National Security Strategy</a>: 125–151. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./JSTOR_(identifier)" id="mwB5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a><span id="mwB5U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23253510" id="mwB5Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">23253510</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt75" class="Z3988" id="mwB5c" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+East+Asian+Affairs&amp;rft.atitle=North+Korea%27s+Power+Structure+and+Foreign+Relations%3A+an+Analysis+of+the+Sixth+Congress+of+the+KWP%2A&amp;rft.chron=spring%E2%80%93summer&amp;rft.volume=2&amp;rft.issue=1&amp;rft.pages=125-151&amp;rft.date=1982&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F23253510%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=Kim&amp;rft.aufirst=Nam-Sik&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+14"></span></span>