The bizarrely undemocratic pageantry of North Korean local vote is a special exercise in absurdity | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Local elections will be held in North Korea Sunday for the first time under Kim Jong Un. A single candidate in each position for a district, chosen by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the governing coalition led by the Workers’ Party of North Korea, will be on the ballot. Abstaining in the…