What type of government does North Korea have?
North Korea is governed by a single party, the Workers' Party of Korea, with supreme leadership held within a single family since the state's founding, a combination commonly classified as a one-party state under hereditary personalist rule.
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Sources
- 1.Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Korea, North.
- 2.Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1972, as amended.
- 3.Encyclopaedia Britannica. North Korea Government and Society.