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North Korea Formulation of National Security Policy
The seemingly complex national security policy-making process
was tempered by three factors: interlocking memberships in party
and government apparatus, the relative unimportance of the state
apparatus in decision making, and the state's relegation to
implementing policies decided by the party structure. In general,
the party, typically the General Political Bureau and the
Military Affairs Committee, has broad policy-making
responsibility for military affairs. Within the government,
however, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces controls the
military. The General Staff Department and the General Rear
Services Bureau of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces
prepare military budgets under the guidance of the Political
Bureau and Military Affairs Committee. Proposed budgets are
approved by the KWP Military Affairs Committee and passed into
law by the essentially rubber stamp legislature, the Supreme
People's Assembly
(see Organization of the Government
, ch. 4).
Data as of June 1993
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