North Korea will have its 2015 local elections, the first since Kim Jong Un took power, in mid-July, the Korean Central News Agency announced on Monday.

“Elections for deputies to provincial (municipality), city (district) and county people’s assemblies will take place in the DPRK on July 19, Juche 104 (2015) in accordance with Article 139 of the Socialist Constitution and decisions of the local people’s committees,” the state-run news agency reported in a brief announcement.

The local elections, which elect committees ranking below the Supreme People’s Assembly, have taken place every four years since 1999. The last of them took place