2014 North Korean parliamentary election: Difference between revisions

The main purpose of elections in North Korea is to determine the location of voters{{citation needed}} and in theory their political allegiance<ref name=20140310nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/north-korea.html|title=North Korea Uses Election To Reshape Parliament |author=Choe, Sang-Hun |work=The New York Times|date=10 March 2014 |access-date=12 September 2014}}</ref> as well as to fill parliament seats with new members who are loyal to Kim Jong-un.{{citation needed}} Members of the Supreme People's Assembly are elected in single-member constituencies, with one approved candidate put forward in each constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/north-korea-holds-parliament-election_916743.html|title=North Korea holds Parliament 'election'|work=Zee News|access-date=12 September 2014}}</ref> Large groups of voters are presented with a ballot while moving through a voting booth, on which there is a single box to tick a candidate's name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newfocusintl.com/autocratic-north-korea-hold-elections-merely-political-ruse/|title=Why does autocratic North Korea hold elections? It's not merely a political ruse.|author=newfocusintl|work=New Focus International|access-date=12 September 2014}}</ref> Voters must stop to cross out the candidate, making the process a monitored event.<ref name=20140310nyt/> [[Voting is compulsory]] in North Korea.<ref>[[2014 North Korean parliamentary election#cite note-T-11]]</ref> Some North Koreans in China who defected to South Korea after the famine in their home country in the mid-1990s have said they did so because they feared punishment back home for failing to show up for parliamentary elections.<ref name=20140310nyt/>