People's Committee of North Korea

People's Committee of North Korea
북조선인민위원회
1947–1948
Anthem: Aegukga[2][3]
애국가
"Patriotic Song"
Location of northern Korea
Location of northern Korea
StatusProvisional government under Soviet Civil Administration
CapitalPyongyang
Common languagesKorean
Religion
State atheism
GovernmentUnitary Marxist–Leninist provisional government
Chairman 
• 1947–1948
Kim Il Sung
LegislaturePeople's Assembly
Historical eraCold War
• Established
22 February 1947
9 September 1948
CurrencyKorean yen[4]
(1947)
Won of the Red Army Command
(1947)
North Korean won
(1947–1948)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Provisional People's Committee of North Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
^a See Religion in North Korea.
People's Committee of North Korea
Chosŏn'gŭl
북조선인민위원회
Hancha
北朝鮮人民委員會
Revised RomanizationBukjoseon Inmin Wiwonhoe
McCune–ReischauerPukchosŏn Inmin Wiwŏnhoe

The People's Committee of North Korea (Korean북조선인민위원회) was a provisional government governing the Northern portion of the Korean Peninsula from 1947 until 1948.

Established on 21 February 1947 as the successor of the de facto provisional government of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea, the provisional government was pro-Soviet and ideologically communist. It functioned alongside the Soviet Civil Administration, which served in an advisory role to the provisional government. The committee oversaw the transition from Soviet occupation in northern Korea to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which was established on 9 September 1948.

  1. ^ Worldstatesmen.org - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
  2. ^ 인민군대 (People's Army) (1948)
  3. ^ 남북 조선 년석회 (South and North Korea Meeting) (1948)
  4. ^ Cho, Lee-Jay; Kim, Yoon Hyung (1995). Economic systems in South and North Korea: the agenda for economic integration. Korea Development Institute. p. 161. ISBN 978-89-8063-001-1.