NKoreans cast votes, but govt decides for whom

Published March 9, 2014 5:06am ET



PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans went to polling stations on Sunday to approve a new national legislature.

The vote for the Supreme People’s Assembly is the first in five years and the first under leader Kim Jong Un. The last elections were held in March 2009, when 687 deputies were elected to the assembly. It is the most powerful body under North Korea’s constitution, but which in reality has little political power.

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