With North Korea preparing for a once-in-five-years legislature election Sunday, its state media Saturday urged its citizens to go and vote by praising its election system and denouncing South Korea's "capitalist-corrupted" election practice, Yonhap reported.
"Simply put, South Korean elections are all about money, government influence, coercion, fraud and trickery. Most of all, money is the best," Jong Kyu-jin, who is believed to have defected to North Korea in 1989, was quoted as saying by Radio Pyongyang.
He said North Korea's election "best serves the people and is the most democratic system in the world."
Attention is mounting outside the Stalinist country on how leader Kim Jong-il will reshuffle the country's elite structure.
There is no competition in the North's parliamentary vote, with only one candidate appointed per district. Although the election is perfunctory, its results reveal the latest power hierarchy in the secretive state.
Kim Jong-il is also running in the 333rd military constituency.
The incumbent 687 delegates were "chosen" in 2003 with 100 percent approval.