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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	RomaniaReviewed	North KoreaReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Socialist law
System of government	Unitary semi-presidential republic	One-party socialist state
Constitution	Constitution of Romania	Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
In force since	1991	1972
Capital	Bucharest	Pyongyang
Official languages	Romanian	Korean
Currency	Romanian leu (RON)	North Korean won (KPW)
Population	19,000,000	26,200,000
Division of powers	Semi-presidential: a directly elected President shares executive power with a Government answerable to Parliament, and constitutional conflicts between them are themselves justiciable before the Constitutional Court.	Unitary and centralised. Nine provinces and several specially administered cities, with directly administered special economic and tourist zones — Rason, Kaesong, Wonsan-Kalma and others — that operate under their own investment statutes offering terms unavailable in the rest of the country. Local people's assemblies exist but exercise no autonomous legislative competence.
How law is made	A bill goes to a first-notified chamber and then to the decisional chamber, whose vote is final. The President may return it once for reconsideration or refer it to the Constitutional Court before promulgation and publication in Monitorul Oficial.	The Supreme People's Assembly meets for one or two short sessions a year and adopts legislation without recorded dissent. Its Presidium exercises legislative power between sessions by issuing ordinances and decisions, which is the route by which most law is in fact made. Drafts are prepared within the Cabinet and Party organs; there is no published consultation process, no committee scrutiny in any meaningful sense, and no mechanism for public comment.
Legal profession	Lawyers (avocați) are admitted through local bars affiliated to the UNBR after examination and a two-year traineeship; notaries and judicial enforcement officers are separate professions.	There is no independent legal profession. Lawyers practise through the Korean Lawyers Committee, a state-controlled body, and defence representation in criminal proceedings is appointed rather than freely chosen. Foreign investors in the special economic zones generally use foreign counsel and contractual arbitration outside the country, because domestic representation and domestic dispute resolution offer no independent forum.

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