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The '''Pyongyang Declaration''', officially titled '''Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism''', was a statement signed by a number of [[political parties]] on 20 April 1992 that calls for the unity of the socialist camp and a vow to safeguard [[socialism]]. Representatives of 70 [[Communist party|communist]] and [[Socialist party|socialist parties]] from 51 countries arrived in [[Pyongyang]], [[North Korea]], to [[Day of the Sun|celebrate]] [[Kim Il Sung]]'s 80th birthday.{{sfn|''A Handbook on North Korea''|1998|p=97}} While there, the delegates had many bilateral and multilateral contacts with each other and decided to issue a declaration reiterating their commitment to socialism in spite of the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|collapse of the USSR]] and a [[Fall of Communism|number of other communist regimes]] in recent years. On 20 April, the declaration was signed by delegates of 69 parties, including 48 party leaders.<ref name=original/>

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The Declaration was originally signed on 20 April 1992 by 69 parties.<ref name=original>{{cite web|url=http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/AppendicesFinal.html|title=Alliance 19; April 1996, The Path to a New Communist, Marxist -Leninist International Appendix 1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216143027/http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/AppendicesFinal.html|archive-date=16 February 2019|access-date=8 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Of the original signatories, only two – [[Workers' Party of Korea]] and the The [[Mongolian People's Party|Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party]] –later werewithdrew majorfrom parties.the Thedeclaration, Mongolianthe only party laterto withdrewdo from the declarationso.{{sfn|''A Handbook on North Korea''|1998|p=97}} According to KCNA, "Six months later, the number of signatories reached more than 140. "They numbered over 170 one year later".<ref name=300political/> At the time of the ten-year anniversary in 2002 there were 258 signatories.<ref name=258signatories/> In 2012 there were 280.<ref name=258signatories>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2002/200204/news04/20.htm Pyongyang declaration signed by 258 political parties ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012035117/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2002/200204/news04/20.htm |date=12 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name=300political/> The number of signatories reached 300 in 2017.<ref name=300political>{{Cite web |title=Pyongyang Declaration Signed by More than 300 Political Parties of World |agency=KCNA |date=21 April 2017 |access-date=29 August 2019 |url= https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1546674832-39763653/pyongyang-declaration-signed-by-more-than-300-political-parties-of-world/ }}</ref> North Korea often cites these numbers for [[propaganda]] purposes.{{sfn|''A Handbook on North Korea''|1998|p=98}}

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