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THE STATE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
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| 1.Character, Tasks and Ultimate Goal of the State |
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The DPRK is an independent socialist state
representing the interests of all the Korean people.
It is a Juche-oriented socialist state which embodies the
idea and leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the founder of socialist Korea.
His idea and feats of leadership are the basic guarantee for
the nation's prosperity.
The socialist system of the Republic is a people-centred
social system in which the working people are the masters of everything and
everything in society serves them.
In accordance with the nature of its socialist system, the
Government of the Republic defends and protects the interests of workers,
peasants and intellectuals and all other working people who have become masters
of state and society, free from exploitation and oppression.
It is the fundamental revolutionary task for the Government
of the Republic to achieve the complete victory of socialism in the northern
half of Korea by strengthening the people’s power and vigorously performing the
three revolutions-the ideological, technological and cultural-and to reunify
the country on the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great
national unity.
Under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea the
Republic and the Korean people uphold President Kim Il Sung as the eternal
President of the Republic and are speeding up the historic march to carry the
revolutionary cause started by him through to completion by inheriting and
carrying forward his ideas and achievements.
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| 2.State structure |
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The Supreme People’s Assembly is the highest
organ of power in the Republic.
It exercises legislative power.
It is composed of deputies elected on the principle of
universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot.
It is elected for a term of five years.
The National Defence Commission is the highest military
leadership body of state power and the organ of the overall administration of
national defence.
The Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK
commands and directs all the armed forces and guides national defence as a
whole.
The National Defence Commission proclaims a state of war and
issues the mobilization order in the country.
The Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly is the
highest organ of state power when the Supreme People’s Assembly is not in
session.
The President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s
Assembly represents the state and receives the credentials and letters of
recall of diplomatic representatives accredited by foreign states.
The Cabinet is the administrative and executive body of the
highest state power and organ of overall state administration.
The Premier of the Cabinet represents the Government of the
DPRK.
The Cabinet is accountable for its work to the Supreme
People’s Assembly and to the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly when
the Supreme People’s Assembly is not in session.
The local organ of state power is the local people’s
assembly.
The term of office of the people’s assembly of the province
(or municipality directly under central authority), city (or district) and
county is four years.
The local people’s committee is the local organ of state
power when the people’s assembly at the corresponding level is not in session
and the administrative and executive organ of state power at the corresponding
level.
It is accountable to the corresponding people’s assembly and
is subordinate to the people’s committees at higher levels and the Cabinet.
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