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In the North Korean government, the Cabinet is the administrative and executive body. [1] The North Korean government consists of three branches: administrative, legislative, and judicial.
The history of North Korea began with the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south. The Soviet Union and the United States failed to agree on a way to unify the country, and in 1948, they established ...
Politics of North Korea. The Cabinet of Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea ( Naegak [1]) is, according to the Constitution of North Korea, the administrative and executive body and a general state-management organ in the Government of North Korea. [2] The Cabinet's principal newspaper is Minju Choson .
North Korea, [c] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ), [d] is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. [e] The country's western border is ...
The Supreme People's Assembly(SPA; Korean: 최고인민회의; MR: Ch’oego Inmin Hoeŭi) is the legislatureof North Korea. It is ostensibly the highest organ of state powerand the only branch of government in North Korea, with all state organs subservient to it under the principle of unified power. However, in practice it is a rubber ...
History For most of its existence, North Korea has not specified a formal head of state. The 1948 constitution did not define a head of state, but with regard to political functions usually performed by the head of state, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) could be considered one. Kim Il Sung was, at the time, as Premier, merely the head of government ...
The constitution consists of seven chapters and 172 articles and codifies North Korea's basic principles on politics, economy, culture and national defense, the basic rights and duties of the country's citizens, the organization of the North Korean government and the country's national symbols.