Government & Politics

Topics in the Government & Politics category of the knowledge base on the country north korea.

| Topic | Description | |——-|————-| | Government Structure | The DPRK’s one-party totalitarian system — the Supreme Leader, the Workers’ Party of Korea, the state organs, the military, and the security apparatus. | | Workers’ Party of Korea | The sole ruling party (founded 1945) and institutional backbone of the totalitarian state — its structure, cadre system, mass mobilization, and role under Kim Jong-un. | | Korean People’s Army | The DPRK’s ~1.2-million-strong military, founded 1948 — armed force, economic conglomerate, nuclear custodian, and the coercive skeleton of the Kim regime. | | State Security Department | The Bowibu (Ministry of State Security), the regime’s secret police and pervasive internal-surveillance apparatus, answerable only to the Supreme Leader. | | Songun (Military-First) Ideology | The DPRK’s military-first state doctrine, codified under Kim Jong-il in the 1990s, elevating the Korean People’s Army above the party and the state as the organizing principle of governance, spending, and legitimacy. | | Supreme People’s Assembly | The DPRK’s nominal legislature and constitutionally “highest organ of state power” — a rubber-stamp body of ~687 deputies that unanimously ratifies decisions made by the Supreme Leader and the party. |