Workers' Party of North Korea
The League was founded by Kim Il-sung on 17 January 1946 as the Democratic Youth League of North Korea. It became the youth wing of the Workers' Party of North Korea, later the Workers' Party of Korea. Six months after its foundation in June 1946, the League joined the World Federation of Democratic Youth, establishing international relations with other progressive youth movements. It was renamed the Democratic Youth League of Korea and in May 1964 renamed as the League of Socialist Working Youth of Korea. It assumed the name Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League on its 50th anniversary in 1996.