NKoreans vote for unopposed candidates in parliamentary polls
(8 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of Pyongchon Street in downtown Pyongyang 2. Various of people going into polling station at Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory 3. Exterior of the factory which was the venue for one of the polling stations 4. Close of sign reading (Korean) "Election Booth." 5. Mid of voters looking at the candidates list. 6. Close of board introducing one of the candidates for the deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) 7. Close of voters looking at the candidates list. 8. Wide of Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meeting and talking with the workers at wire factory. 9. Close of Kim Yong Nam 10. Mid of factory workers 11. Wide of the inside of the polling station 12. Mid of Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) receiving a ballot. 13. Close of the portraits of President Kim Il Sung (left) and leader Kim Jong Il (right). 14. Mid of Kim Yong Nam putting the ballot into the ballot box. 15. Close of the voting card. 16. Various of voters putting the ballots into the box. 17. Mid of Kim Sok Nam, Manager of Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory, standing as candidate to be a member of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly, talking to a journalist. 18. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Sok Nam, Factory Manager and Supreme People's Assembly candidate: "This time I was nominated as one of the candidates for the deputies to 12th SPA. If elected as a deputy, I will work harder as a true servant of the people, thus making an active contribution to building a thriving nation." 19. Mid of people going into polling station. 20. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Un Kyong, worker, Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory: "I cast a ballot of patriotism, a ballot of approval with a mind to strengthen our socialist system, the best in the world, as firm as a rock." 21. Wide of polling station in Puksae Street, downtown Pyongyang 22. Mid of North Korean flag 23. Various of the election place full of people singing and dancing. 24. Mid of the board introducing another candidate for the deputy to the SPA. 25. Wide of officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (called "Chongryon" in Korea) receiving ballots. 26. Close of the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il. 27. Mid of people putting the ballots into the box. 28. Close of a hand putting ballot into box. 29. Mid of the voters putting the ballots. 30. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Nam Yon, a Korean resident in Japan: "I feel very honoured for having attended the election of a deputy to the SPA, as a proud overseas citizen of the Republic, for the first time, feeling embraced by our fatherly General (fatherly General refers to Kim Jong II)." 31. Wide of the polling station with people dancing 32. Wide of streets in Pyongyang. STORYLINE North Koreans voted on Sunday to elect legislators to the country's parliament - a poll outside observers are watching closely for hints that leader Kim Jong Il may be grooming a successor. APTN North Korea filmed voters in Pyongyang as they waited to cast their ballots outside a polling station at an electrical factory in the capital. The poll is the first since Kim, 67-years-old, reportedly suffered a stroke last August. Elections scheduled for last year were postponed and Kim disappeared from the public eye, sparking concerns that the authoritarian leader's sudden death could trigger chaos and instability in the impoverished and nuclear-armed nation. Only one candidate runs in each constituency. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
