North Korea Politics

With a vaguely democratic framework, North Korea Politics is based on a Single party system. North Korea Politics in based on the principle of Centralization and is widely considered to be a totalitarian dictatorship.Although the Constitution prescribes the protection of human rights and democratic system of North Korea Politics, in reality, the real power is concentrated within the hands on the ruling elite. The Government and the overall North Korea Politics is dominated by the Workers' Party of Korea who have been in power ever since the independence of North Korea.

Elections are an important part of the North Korea Politics but elections occur only in single-candidate races where the candidate has been selected by the WPK beforehand. Kin Il Sung , the famous North Korean leader, plays an important role in the North Korea Politics. He has been given the posthumous title of "Eternal President". This had made most analysts conclude that the North Korea Politics is based on the cult of personality.

North Korea Politics is widely known to be following a Communist Ideology but the North Korea Government has altered their political line . Formerly it was Marxism - Leninism that guided North Korea Politics but now it has been replaced by the locally developed concept of Juche, or self-reliance.
North Korea Military has an important role in the North Korea Politics. Most of the social sectors are insisted to follow Military methods and adopt the Military spirit. The constitution of North Korea prescribes the line of North Korea Politics in clear words, it says, "the Democratic People's Republic of Korea shall, by carrying out a thorough cultural revolution, train all the people to be builders of socialism and communism".