The 2nd Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...

in October 1966. At the time the domestic and international situation of the

Korean Workers' Party The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party o ...

was complicated by the

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, which had caused a rift among communist countries and parties. Kim Il Sung delivered the report ''The Present Situation and the Tasks of Our Party'' which emphasized unity between socialist countries and within the international communist movement, as well as directing the main blow to United States imperialism, particularly with regards to the

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. He also emphasized the need for "politico-ideological unity of the revolutionary ranks".''Understanding Workers Party of Korea'' Pyongyang; Foreign Languages Publishing House Juche 105 (2016) pp.102-4 Following the conference, a group called the "Kapsan faction" started voicing opinions critical of Kim Il Sung. The internal differences within the party culminated to a purge called the

Kapsan Faction Incident The Kapsan Faction Incident was an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the power of Kim Il-sung, the leader of North Korea, around the year 1967. The "Kapsan faction" was a group of veterans of the anti-Japanese struggle of the 1930s and 1940s t ...

that left Kim Il Sung's rule unchallenged.

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