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

Pyongyang Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...

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

Korean Workers' Party The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), also called the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), is the sole ruling party of North Korea. Founded in 1949 from a merger between the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea, the WPK is ...

was complicated by the

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, which had caused a rift among communist countries and parties.

Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as its first Supreme Leader (North Korean title), supreme leader from North Korea#Founding, its establishm ...

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 194 ...

that left Kim Il Sung's rule unchallenged.

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