SEOUL: North Koreans voted on Sunday in a pre-determined election for a rubber-stamp parliament—an exercise that doubles as a national head count and may offer clues to power shifts in Pyongyang.

The vote to elect representatives for the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) was taking place as scheduled, the state-run KCNA news agency said, adding that voter turnout was a whopping 91 percent as of 2 p.m.

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