Commander-in-Chief of North Korea: Difference between revisions

 

On 13 April 2012, the constitution was amended to transfer the powers of supreme commander to the First Chairman of the National Defense Commission to which Kim Jong Un was elected. Kim Jong Un was later elected as [[President of the State Affairs Commission]] on 29 June 2016 to which the powers of supreme commander were transferred to.

 

On 15 April 2015, Kim Jong Un began to be referred to as '''Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea''' despite the constitution designating him as commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Yonhap |title=NK leader newly called 'supreme commander of Armed Forces of DPRK' |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190416000663 |access-date=11 May 2020 |work=koreaherald.com |agency=The Korea Herald |publisher=Herald Corporation |date=16 April 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Standard of the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.svg|thumb|Standard of the Supreme Commander until 2022<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-17 |title=North Korea completes erasure of Kim Jong Un's 'supreme commander' symbol {{!}} NK News |url=https://www.nknews.org/2022/02/north-korea-completes-erasure-of-kim-jong-uns-supreme-commander-symbol/ |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=NK News - North Korea News |language=en-US}}</ref>]]

 

== Powers ==

The North Korean constitution gives the Supreme Commander with the power to command the entire armed forces of the country.