North Korea is the perfect example of a totalitarian state. The actual President is Kim Jong-un who "took over" after his father named Kim Jon-il died on December 17, 2011.
Just like the one to-day, "Elections" are held every five years but, the result is a foregone conclusion ! There are 687 Districts and only one candidate is chosen by the only political party, for each District. Voters have a choice of voting YES or no ! Mistakes are not tolerated !
The result will be a 100% vote in favour of all that President Kim Jong-un is doing in North Korea at the moment. He is also a candidate and is standing in his father's old constituency or District !
To underline the fact that mistakes are not tolerated, one should not forget that the uncle of Kim Jong-un, named Jang Song-thaek, was executed together with all the members of his family on 12 December 2013.
At first he appeared to be advising or even "grooming" the current President. No real reason was given why he was phased out. No one was accused of executing him. Lets just say that this "totalitarian" President could not save his uncle !
Incidentally, North Korea is a member of the United Nations with the name "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea". The Republic of Korea (i.e. South Korea) is also a member of UNO.
For good measure one must add that Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of UNO was born in the Republic of Korea on 13 June 1944 !
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