This a form of 'whataboutism'. It is not an argument, only a deflection and an excuse. Just because 'other states do it' does not make it something to be imitated.
It's not an excuse, it's an explanation as to why every single country in the world watches over elections. If you don't understand why the state has to watch over elections I don't really know what to tell you.
Also, you know what I mean about 'party approved'. Don't be intentionally obtuse here.
The problem here is that you make vague and misleading statements like "controlled by the state" without any backing. You make a lot of claims but you don't seem to back them up with anything other than your feelings.
Because not all of the workers' interests can be contained in a single party. Workers do have common interests, but also different goals and ideas on how those can be achieved. One single party with one narrowly defined ideological bent can do nothing but alienate a large swaths of the proletariat.
That's why there is more than one party as well as mass meetings.
You don't actually know how the elections happen, you most likely haven't read a single book or paper on the subject, you haven't backed up any of your claims with sources, and that is why I'm gonna call you a liberal, cause it's exactly what liberals do.
To quote Xplkqlkcassia:
If you want to talk about elections there, the DPRK hosts elections at five-year intervals at local, municipal, and provincial levels. It hosts parliamentary elections as well. The first secretary of the WPK (Kim Jong-un) is not decided directly by the electorate, neither is the President of the United States. The secretary is decided by a democratic vote conducted within the SPA, the Supreme People's Assembly. There are three dominating political parties in the DPRK, the WPK (607 seats), the Korean Social Democratic Party (50 seats), the Chondoist Chongu Party (22 seats), and there are also seats held by various religious organisations (3 seats) and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chae Ilbon Chosŏnin Ch'ongryŏnhaphoe), which holds 5 seats. Votes are not cast publicly. Anyone who has actually the DPRK during an election will know that votes are cast in secret, in voting booths, like any other normal country. This myth seems to have originated in the Chosun Ilbo, nevertheless, it is completely false. The DPRK has one of the most democratic electoral systems of any country in the world. The system we should be making fun of is that of the United States.
Kim Jong-Un occupies the post of the First Chairman of the NDC (National Defence Commission), the First Secretary of the WPK (Worker's Party of Korea), and is also currently the Supreme Commander of the KPA (Korean People's Army), and arguably none of those posts hold any power by themselves. Decisions are often delegated to, and require appointment by, the Supreme People's Assembly, which exercises legislative power in the DPRK (the SPA consists of 687 deputies, each of which elect a representative to serve a five year term). However, in reality, the SPA (with the exception of when its members convene annually) delegates power to the Presidium while it is in recess. The current President of the Presidium is Kim Yong-nam. Yet not even he carries out the complex legislative functions of the DPRK unilaterally - the Presidium consists of several members who approve state legislation, organise elections to the SPA, and ratify treaties with foreign countries. The Cabinet of the DPRK exercises administrative and legislative power, and manages general state functions. The Premier of the DPRK, currently Pak Pong-ju, oversees and represents the Cabinet. However, the post of Premier has no policy-making authority itself. The Cabinet is composed of two organisations, the Central People's Committee and the State Administration Council, of which the CPC (Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea) is imbued with executive power. The current CC was elected by the 6th Congress of the WPK by 3,062 delegates representing the party membership of the WPK. The Central Committee currently has 300 different members.
The Central Committee has two departments - the Politburo and the Secretariat, whose decisions are carried out by the 15 different Central Departments, of which the Organization and Guidance Department (which manages party, army, and government apparatus as well as human resources management) is the most important. The Secretariat of the Central Committee is tasked with executive and administrative duties, particularly coordinating the activities of the central departments. The current secretaries important to this question are Choe Thae-bok, who manages education and foreign affairs, Choe Ryong Hae and Mun Kyong Dok, the Pyongyang party secretaries, Pak To Chun, who administrates over military industry, and Kim Yong-il who does international affairs. These people generally are vested with as much power as say, the Minister of Education might be, sometimes their roles overlap, and there are sometimes more than three people tasked with any specific role. Who is tasked with directing and organising party work in-between plenary meetings? According to Article 25, this task is handled by the Political Bureau, the leading body of the WPK. There are three current members of the Political Bureau Presidium (but many, many more as part of the general Politburo): Kim Jong-Un, Kim Yong-nam, and Hwang Pyong-so.
Inter-Parliamentary Union document detailing the Parliamentary system in the DPRK