North Korea shock as party candidates fail to gain 100% of vote

It is a political earthquake that has provoked speculation about the future of one of the most closed and repressive countries in the world and thrown experts into confusion. In North Korea, the last of the totalitarian communist dictatorships, an election has been held in which ruling party candidates did not win 100 per cent of the votes.

North Korea has long held so-called elections in which members of the Workers’ Party of Korea stand unopposed and are obediently chosen by every single voter. But in polling held over the weekend for local assemblies, the previously unthinkable happened: according to the state media, a small proportion of voters rejected the nominated candidates.

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