Between the two there were differences in terms of social background of cadres and ideological profiles.

We must fight with our utmost to maintain the Party's purity, unity, and iron discipline.

Kim Il Sung became the Chairman of the People's Committee of North Korea, the provisional government structure.

[5] At the second party congress, leading members of the 'domestic' communist faction such as O Ki-sop, Chong Tal-hyon, Ch'oe Yong-dal and Yi Pong-su were attacked by Kim Il Sung.

O Ki-sop was re-elected to the party central committee, but relegated to a post in a minor government enterprise.

They were living, just as in the past, the life of egocentricity and self-importance, confined within their small local groups, without carrying out any Party work or obeying superior organisations.

Therefore, leaders of these small groups, whose vision was adjusted to their caves and who were addicted to individual heroism, opposed the establishment of the North Korean Central Bureau on the excuse that they "support the central headquarters (in Seoul)."

In order to hide their schemes, [they] alleged that "establishment of the North Korean branch would result in dividing the Party.

""[4] When the Supreme People's Assembly met in early September 1948, 102 out of 212 delegates came from the Workers Party.