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North Korea The Central People's Committee
The top executive decision-making body is the Central
People's Committee (CPC) created under the 1972 constitution.
Seven articles in the 1992 constitution relate to the CPC. The
president of the DPRK is the head of the CPC; it is also composed
of the vice presidents, the CPC secretary, and unspecified
"members." The term is the same as that for the SPA. All CPC
members are elected by the SPA and can be recalled by the
assembly on presidential recommendation. Inasmuch as CPC members
overlap with the top-ranking members of the party's Political
Bureau, the CPC provides the highest visible institutional link
between the government and the party and serves in effect as a de
facto super-cabinet.
The CPC's formal powers are all-inclusive. Among its
responsibilities are formulating domestic and foreign policies,
directing the work of the State Administration Council and its
local organs, directing the judiciary, ensuring the enforcement
of the constitution and other laws, appointing or removing the
vice premiers and cabinet members, establishing or changing
administrative subdivisions or their boundaries, and ratifying or
abolishing treaties signed with foreign countries. The CPC also
may issue decrees, decisions, and instructions.
The CPC oversees nine commissions: economic policy, foreign
policy, internal policy, justice and security, legislative,
national defense, parliamentary group, state inspection, and
state price fixing. The members of these commissions are
appointed by the CPC. The National Defense Commission's vice
chairmen (an unspecified number) are elected by the SPA on the
recommendation of the president, who also is chairman of the
commission.
Data as of June 1993
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