North Korea
Government type
dictatorship, single-party communist state
Head of state
State Affairs Commission President, KIM Jong Un, 17 December 2011
Head of government
Supreme People's Assembly President, CHOE Ryong Hae, 11 April 2019
Legislature
Supreme People's Assembly (Choe Go In Min Hoe Ui), unicameral, 687, plurality/majority, 5 years, 10 March 2019, December 2025, The SPA functions as a rubberstamp legislature; the Korean Workers' Party selects all candidates
Key ministers
- Minister of People's Armed Forces: not specified in source (not specified in source)