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)