ble factions or interest groups
because they have no party headquarters, formal platforms, or party
structures

Korea, North
major party - Korean Workers' Party or KWP [KIM Jong
Il]; minor parties - Chondoist Chongu Party [RYU Mi Yong] (under KWP
control), Social Democratic Party [KIM Yong Dae] (under KWP control)

Korea, South
Democratic Labor Party or DLP [MOON Seong-hyun];
Democratic Party or DP [HAHN Hwa-kap]; Grand National Party or GNP
[KANG Jae-sup]; People-First Party or PFP [SHIN Kook-hwan and SIM
Dae-pyung]; Uri Party [KIM Geun-tae]

Kuwait
none; formation of political parties is illegal

Kyrgyzstan
Ar-Namys (Dignity) Party [Emil ALIYEV]; Asaba (Banner
National Revival Party) [Azimbek BEKNAZAROV and Roza OTUNBAYEVA];
Ata-Meken (Fatherland) [Omurbek TEKEBAYEV]; Democratic Movement of
Kyrgyzstan or DDK [Viktor TCHETRNOMORETS]; Erkindik (Freedom) Party
[Topchubek TURGUNALIYEV]; Moya Strana (My Country Party of Action)
[Medet SADYRKULOV]; Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan or KCP [Ishak
MASALIYEV]; Party of Justice and Progress [Muratbek IMANALIEV];
Party of Peasants [Esengul ISAKOV]; Republican Party of Labor and
Unity [Tabaldy OROZALIYEV]; Sanjira (Tree of Life) [Ednan
KARABAYEV]; Social Democratic Party [Almaz ATAMBAYEV]; Sodruzhestvo
(Cooperation) [Alisher SABIROV]; Union of Democratic Forces
[Kubatbek BAIBOLOV]

Laos
Lao People's Revolutionary Party or LPRP [CHOUMMALI Saignason];
other parties proscribed

Latvia
First Party of Latvia or LPP [Ainars SLESERS]; For Human
Rights in a United Latvia or PCTVL [Jakovs PLINERS]; For the
Fatherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence Movement or
TB/LNNK [Roberts ZILE, Maris GRINBLATS]; Harmony Center or SC [Janis
URBANOVICS, Nils USAKOVS]; Latvian Farmer's Union or LZS [Augusts
BRIGMANIS]; Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (Social
Democrats) or LSDSP [Juris BOJARS]; Latvian Socialist Party or LSP
[Alfreds RUBIKS]; Latvia's Way or LC [Ivars GODMANIS, Ainars
BERZINS]; New Democrats or JD [Maris GULBIS]; New Era Party or JL
[Einars REPSE, Krisjanis KARINS]; People's Party or TP [Aigars
KALVITIS]; The Union of Latvian Greens and Farmers Party or ZZS
[Indulis EMSIS]

Lebanon
note - organized in three major political blocs; 14 March
Coalition (bloc includes Democratic Gathering [Walid JUNBLATT,
leader of Progressive Socialist Party]; Democratic Left [Ilyas
ATALLAH]; De