North Korea: State news agency calls North Korean elections “superior”

Pyongyang’s mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency has resolutely declared it’s election system “fair and free” based on a secret voting system that reflects a perfect model of “socialist democracy”.  According to KCNA, the secret vote allows voters to freely express their will without being subjected to “surveillance or threats by anyone.” All North Koreans are supposedly included in these ‘elections’ where “the working people” can participate “in the formation of the state power” and “powerfully demonstrate once again the single-minded unity” of a nation. North Korea has been a communist one-man dictatorship since leader Kim Il Sung founded the state in 1948 after gaining independence from Japan.

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Superior election system of DPRK, February 13, 2008 - KNCA