SEOUL — North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature has re-elected Kim Jong Un as president of state affairs, state media reported on Monday. 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. Critics argue that elections in North Korea are pre-determined and designed to give the country’s leadership a veneer of democratic legitimacy. “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 […]... Keep on reading: North Korea's Kim reappointed as president of state affairs