The DPRK considers the principle of general election as one of important principles in the election to power organs ranging from local organs to the supreme organ.
Chapter 6 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution stipulates that power organs at all levels from the county people’s assembly to the Supreme People’s Assembly are elected by secret vote on general and equal, direct principle.
The general election principle is one of the democratic election principles that enables the citizens at certain ages to exercise their rights to elect and to be elected without any restrictions.
It demands no limit in the election. According to it, the DPRK citizens at the age of above 17 are granted the right to vote and to be elected regardless of sex, nationality, occupation, residential period, property status, education, party affiliation, political views or religious belief.
However in the US and other capitalist countries the working masses including have-nots, illiterates and the jobless do not participate in the election due to various kinds of limitations.
Different from capitalist countries who exclude the citizens serving the army while clamouring about so-called “political neutrality” of the army, the DPRK citizens who serve the army are also granted the right to elect and to be elected.
The DPRK citizens who live in other countries can be elected the deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly and participate in the election according to their wish in case there is an election of deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly during their staying in the fatherland.
