This election system in the DPRK makes it possible for the working people to truly participate in the formation of the state power.

The superiority of the election system finds manifestation in that the election is held in a free and fair atmosphere by secret vote on the principles of general, equal and direct election.

On the principle of general election, all the citizens above the age of 17 can take part in the elections of deputies to the people's assemblies at all levels and be elected, irrespective of sex, nationality, occupation, period of residence, property status, standards of learning, party affiliation, political view and religious belief. Only those who are deprived of the right to election by the decision of a court and mentally deranged persons are denied the right to elect and be elected.

The principle of equal voting enables all the voters to elect and be elected with the same qualification and right. It allows no difference in the weight and efficiency of the ballot.

On the principle of direct election, the voter casts his or her ballot directly to a candidate for deputy. It, unlike indirect voting, makes it possible to convey the will of the voters directly to the deputies to make the people's power bodies democratic power bodies representing the will of all the voters.

This principle is guaranteed by practical measures such as strictly banning voting by proxy, installing special sub-constituencies at hospitals, sanatoria, major railway stations and other places, organizing itinerant voting for citizens unable to come to the voting booths and declaring the election day a holiday.

Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction. It guarantees a fair and aboveboard election by letting every voter express his or her will freely without subject to coercion, surveillance or threat by anyone.

These principles of election in the DPRK are ones embodying socialist democracy, democracy of the highest form, which make it possible to firmly build up the power bodies at all levels with fine representatives of the working class and working people of other strata, make the power bodies direct spokespersons of the will of the popular masses and stand the popular masses as the genuine masters of power.

Now the entire army and people are full of enthusiasm to powerfully demonstrate once again the might of single-minded unity in the DPRK and fortify the people's power like a monolith by taking part in the election as one man.