N. Korea Assembly Election Set for April
North Korea will hold a parliamentary election in April, six months before the scheduled end of the lawmakers’ four-year terms, the official Korean Central News Agency announced Friday.
The news report said the decision to hold the election for the Supreme People’s Assembly was made in a meeting Thursday. The report, monitored in Tokyo, did not say why the election is being held six months early.
The Assembly, North Korea’s legislature, officially is the highest government body, but generally serves only to ratify decisions made by the Korean Workers’ (Communist) Party.
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