North Korea will hold elections for its rubber-stamp parliament this month after a nearly two-year delay, in what appears to be rapid preparations for endorsing new plans laid out at the Ninth Party Congress.

State media on Wednesday released two decrees from the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), which set the date for the 15th SPA deputy election as March 15.

A separate decree announced the formation of the Central Election Committee, releasing a list of 13 members headed by Kim Hyong Sik, former director of the ruling party’s Legal Department. 

The North Korean Constitution