SEOUL: North Korea has re-elected Kim Jong Un as president of state affairs, state media reported on Monday (Mar 23).Kim's reappointment as head of the authoritarian nation's highest policymaking and governing body, the State Affairs Commission, was announced by the state news agency KCNA.Critics argue

The announcement was made a day after North Korea convened the first session of its Supreme People's Assembly. The assembly, the isolated nation's rubber-stamp legislature, formally approves state policy.