Race and politics The United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (Malay: Pertubuhan Pasok-Momogun Kadazan Bersatu; abbrev: UPKO) was a Kadazan-Dusun-Murut (KDM) based political party in North Borneo and later Sabah at the time it became a state of Malaysia in the 1960s.

[1][2] The party was initially started as the United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO) which was founded by Donald Stephens and Peter Joinod Mojuntin in 1961, with its core constituency of indigenous Sabahans.

[4] The new party UNKO has members which does not support the "Malaysia project" and disagrees with Donald Stephens, hence they split to form a new group led by G. S. Sundang going on to form the United Pasok Momogun Organisation (UPMO) in January 1962.

[1] The merger saw UNKO renamed itself as the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO) in June 1964.

[2] After Stephens was forced out of the chief ministership in 1964 and became a federal minister.,[5] the party was dissolved on 28 December 1967 and absorbed into United Sabah National Organisation (USNO).