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If I recall correctly, NK's elections are not for a Kim. They vote for their legislature and local peeps, but there's not really competition. As far as I can tell, they have an election to justify the "Democratic" in the country's name.
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The Kim who leads the country at any particular time tends to have a different job title than the previous Kim. The original Kim is still President of the DPRK, despite having died in 1994. He kept the title and was deified in death as the "Eternal President." His son Kim Jong Il was "Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army" since 1991, and has retained that title in death, having been deified into a second Eternal Leader of Juche in 2016. Kim Jong Un is Chairman of the State Affairs Commission.Maj wrote:If I recall correctly, NK's elections are not for a Kim. They vote for their legislature and local peeps, but there's not really competition. As far as I can tell, they have an election to justify the "Democratic" in the country's name.
Each Supreme Leader gets new titles made up for them and gets to keep some of them after death when they continue to rule the country as a ghost.
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