{"id":78918,"date":"2014-04-09T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=78918"},"modified":"2014-04-09T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:53:15","slug":"kim-jong-un-wins-re-election-as-leader-of-north-korea-in-rigged-vote-where-nobody-else-was-allowed-to-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=78918","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-Un wins &#8216;re-election&#8217; as leader of North Korea in rigged vote where nobody else was allowed to stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kim-Jong-Un-ballot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78916\" alt=\"Kim Jong-Un - ballot\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kim-Jong-Un-ballot.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kim-Jong-Un-ballot.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kim-Jong-Un-ballot-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kim-Jong-Un-ballot-463x300.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Kim Jong-Un has been &#8216;re-elected&#8217; as leader of North Korea having executed his politically-powerful uncle last year and successfully disposed of 11 high-ranking government officials over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After a pre-determined vote, in which no-one else was allowed to stand, Kim was reaffirmed as First Chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) by the country&#8217;s new rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) described the election as &#8216;the great jubilee in the nation&#8217;s history&#8217; and told how parliament cheered as the result was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Last month North Koreans cast ballots in a pre-determined election where all of the candidates stood unopposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-Un has been &#8216;re-elected&#8217; as leader of North Korea having executed his politically-powerful uncle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}