Democratic Independent Party
Democratic Independent Party | |
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| Abbreviation | Democratic Independent Party |
| Chairperson | Hong Myong-hui |
| Founder | An Jae-hong, Kim Byung-ro, Hong Myong-hui, Kim Ho, Pak Yong-hee, Yi Kuk-no, Kim Won-yong |
| Founded | 19 October 1947 |
| Dissolved | 8 October 1949 Mid or late 1960s |
| Ideology | Korean nationalism Social democracy Progressivism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Democratic Independent Party | |
| Hangul | 민주독립당 |
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| Hanja | 民主獨立黨 |
| RR | Minju dongnipdang |
| MR | Minju tongniptang |
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Democratic Independent Party (DIP; Korean: 민주독립당) was a centrist political party in North and South Korea. The party was established on 19 October 1947. Its initiators were An Jae-hong, Kim Byung-ro, Hong Myong-hui, Kim Ho, Pak Yong-hee, Yi Kuk-no and Kim Won-yong. Of them, Hong became the chairman of the party.
It opposed Syngman Rhee's single-candidate government theory and supported Kim Ku and Kim Kyu-sik's North-South negotiation theory, but after the 1948 North-South Joint Conference, it split into pro-North and 'Yang Kim' factions, and after several mass defections from the party, it transformed into a pro-North minor party. It participated in elections in North Korea from 1948 until at least 1962.