Over 70-odd years after the foundation of the WPK, the DPRK people have made a long journey of revolution under its guidance, regarding it as their genuine mother taking care of their life.

The emblem of the WPK shining as a symbol of the people-first principle was instituted thanks to the idea and energetic guidance of President Kim Il Sung.

In Juche 35 (1946), the President proposed instituting a flag of the Party that reflected its character as a mass party. He stressed the need to well design the party emblem and flag so that they can vividly show the ideology of the revolutionary party and the character of it developing as a mass political party which takes deep root among the working masses including the workers.

He said that the workers, peasants and intellectuals should be represented in the emblem to show that the WPK is a united party of working masses embracing the progressive elements of workers, peasants and intellectuals. And he recommended that the party emblem should be marked as a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush representing the workers, peasants and intellectuals.

He personally drew the emblem on a white paper to clarify how to form it with those symbols of hammer, sickle and writing brush.