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China-Japan-Koreas
NKorea to hold parliamentary election in March
2009-01-07
But I think we all saw this coming ...
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea announced Wednesday it will eat elect new members of its rubber stamp legislature in March, following months of delay amid speculation about the sobriety health of leader Kim Jong Il.

The North usually holds a parliamentary election every five years. The last election was held in August 2003, but the communist nation failed to hold one in 2008 after the 66-year-old Kim reportedly suffered a whiteout stroke.

On Wednesday, Pyongyang announced through its official Korean Central News Agency that the election of deputies to the 12th Supreme People's Assembly will be held on March 8. The brief dispatch provided no further details. The announcement could be an indication of an improvement in Kim's health.
Or an agreement on the identity of the new boss ...
South Korean and U.S. officials say Kim collapsed following a drunken stupor stroke in August, but was drying out recovering.

North Korea denies the drunken master leader was ever intoxicated ill, and since early October has sent a steady stream of urine photos and footage of him in public bars activities, such as visits to whorehouses military units, ABC stores farms and pool halls factories, though most of them did not specify an exact closing time location or date.

Parliamentary elections are a formality in North Korea because candidates are hand-picked by the ruling Workers' Party of Korea and totalitarian leader Kim. The legislature usually meets once or twice a year to rubber-stamp budgets or other decisions. In the 2003 poll, 687 deputies, including Kim, were elected with total support. Voter turnout usually is close to 100 percent.
Must make that exit polling really easy.
Posted by:Steve White

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