Democracy, DPRK style: North Korea holds election

Every five years North Korea holds an election for the Supreme People's Assembly but there is only one approved name on each of the red ballot papers. [AFP]

North Koreans went to the polls Sunday for an election in which there could be only one winner.

Leader Kim Jong Un's ruling Workers' Party has an iron grip on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as the isolated, nuclear-armed country is officially known.