North Korea reappoints Kim Jong-un as supreme leader

2026.03.23 01:20 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre) at the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday. Photo: KCNA/KNS/AFP North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reappointed as president of ‌state affairs, state media reported on Monday, after the isolated nation convened the first session of its Supreme People’s Assembly a day earlier. North Korea’s constitution explicitly states that the president of state affairs is the “supreme leader of the DPRK” who represents the state, which is officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim’s reappointment as head of the authoritarian nation’s highest policymaking and governing body, the State Affairs Commission, was announced by the state news agency, KCNA. “The Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK reelected Comrade Kim Jong-un as President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the First Session, the first state affairs activity of its 15th term, on March 22,” the KCNA report said. Kim Jong-un votes in an election for the Supreme People’s Assembly on March 15. Photo: KCNA/Reuters The report said the decision to elect Kim to the “top post” in the North Korean state reflected “the unanimous will and desire of all the Korean people.” Kim Jong-un is the third-generation ruler of the nuclear-armed state founded by his grandfather Kim Il-sung in 1948 and has ruled the country since his father’s death in 2011. Photos released by KCNA show Kim dressed in a Western, formal suit, seated at the centre of a stage, flanked by top officials in front of two giant statues of his father Kim Jong-il and grandfather. Prior to the event, 687 deputies were elected to the assembly, with North Koreans over the age of 17 given the choice of approving or rejecting the sole candidate put forward by the ruling party. Delegates to the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly vote at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on Sunday. Photo: KCNA/KNS/AFP The new deput

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