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Unified Progressive Party 통합진보당 | |
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| Abbreviation | UPP |
| Leader | Lee Jung-hee |
| Founded | 5 December 2011 |
| Banned | 19 December 2014 |
| Political orientation | Anti-imperialism Socialism |
The Unified Progressive Party (UPP) is a banned left-wing political party in south Korea. It opposed the U.S. military occupation of Korea and advocated the end of imperialist control of the country. The Constitutional Court banned the party because it shared many of its goals with the DPRK.[1]
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- ↑ Stephen Gowans (2018). Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom: 'The Anti-Communist Police State' (pp. 138–141). [PDF] Montreal: Baraka Books. ISBN 9781771861427 [LG]