김두봉
The confusion which stemmed from the decisions of the 20th Congress of the CPSU were felt in the election of the 3rd Central Committee. Several Soviet Koreans still held high-standing party offices, including their informal leader Pak Chang-ok (who had been criticized by name on several occasions by Kim Il-sung), while prominent members of the Yanan faction "whose revolutionary activities had been ridiculed by Kim in the past were reelected". The same can be said of the domestic communists, several of them who were reelected were close to Pak Hon-yong (who had tried to overthrow Kim Il-sung the previous year), such as Ho Song-taek and Puk Mun-gyu. Despite this, Kim Il-sung managed to get many of his closest reelected to the Central Committee; 11 full members and 6 candidate members were partisans, but more importantly, of the six highest ranked Central Committee members, four of them were partisans (Kim Il-sung, Choe Yong-gun, Kim Il and Pak Kum-chol, the other two were Kim Tu-bong and Pak Chong-ae). Only 28 members were reelected to the 3rd Central Committee, 43 were new members and only five were promoted from candidate membership to full membership. 46 candidate members were elected to the 3rd Central Committee, of these two were reelected. None of the members of the 2nd Central Auditing Committee were reelected to the 3rd Central Auditing Committee.