Corea del Nord Governo Profilo 2008

Capitale

nome: Pyongyang
coordinate geografiche: 39 01 N, 125 45 E
differenza di tempo: UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Indipendenza

15 Agosto 1945 (from Japan)

Festa nazionale

Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), 9 Settembre (1948)

Costituzione

adopted 1948; completely revised 27 Dicembre 1972, revised again in Aprile 1992, and Settembre 1998

Suffragio

17 anni; universal

Ramo esecutivo

capo dello stato: KIM Jong Il (da allora July 1994); note - on 3 September 2003, rubberstamp Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) reelected KIM Jong Il chairman of the National Defense Commission, a position accorded nation's "highest administrative authority"; SPA reelected KIM Yong Nam president of its Presidium also with responsibility of representing state and receiving diplomatic credentials
capo di governo: Premier KIM Yong Il (da allora 11 April 2007); Vice Premiers KWAK Pom Gi (da allora 5 September 1998), JON Sung Hun (da allora 3 September 2003), RO Tu Chol (da allora 3 September 2003), THAE Jong Su (da allora 16 October 2007)
cabinet: Naegak (cabinet) members, except for Minister of People's Armed Forces, are appointed by SPA
elections: last held in September 2003 (next to be held in September 2008)
election results: KIM Jong Il and KIM Yong Nam were only nominees for positions and ran unopposed