In a Formality, Elections for Assembly Are Held
From Times Wire Reports
North Koreans elected their leader Kim Jong Il and hundreds of others to the Communist country’s rubber-stamp parliament. State-run media showed citizens, hundreds of them soldiers in uniform, lining up to vote for the Supreme People’s Assembly, which has a five-year term.
The elections for the assembly are a formality because candidates are handpicked by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and totalitarian leader Kim. Television showed women in traditional dresses dancing and singing at polling stations.
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