North Korea legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
North Korean laws, decrees, and regulations flow from the Socialist Constitution and the Supreme People's Assembly, published through official state channels such as the Naenara state web portal and the Korean Central News Agency. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured North Korea coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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What is the supreme law of North Korea, and which body is its highest organ of state power?
The Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — adopted on 27 December 1972 and amended several times, including in 2019 — is the supreme law. It designates the Supreme People's Assembly as the highest organ of state power, with its Presidium (Standing Committee) acting between sessions.
Source: Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, via the official Naenara state portal — naenara.com.kp
Illustrative — North Korea coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official North Korean sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures North Korean legal materials from official state, legislative, court, and government sources. Once North Korea coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the Socialist Constitution and codified statutes · Supreme People's Assembly and its Presidium · Cabinet decisions and directives · state publication and dissemination channels · courts and the procuracy
- Socialist Constitution of the DPRK
- Supreme People's Assembly (Choego Inmin Hoeui)
- Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
- Cabinet of the DPRK
- Naenara — official state web portal (naenara.com.kp)
- Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
- Rodong Sinmun (official newspaper)
- Central Court of the DPRK
- Central Public Prosecutors Office
North Korean legal source types we structure
North Korean legal coverage will include the constitution, primary legislation, codified statutes, executive and regulatory materials, and legislative history where available. Access to authoritative North Korean legal texts is limited, so coverage will prioritize the constitution, published codes, and state-issued materials.
Legislation & Regulations
The Socialist Constitution, laws (beop) adopted by the Supreme People's Assembly, decrees of its Presidium, and decisions and directives of the Cabinet — including codified statutes such as the Civil Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, and Socialist Labour Law — where available from official state sources.
Legislative History
Amendments to the Socialist Constitution and successive versions of key codes announced through the Supreme People's Assembly and official state media, version by version and tied to their source, where available.
Regulatory & Economic-Zone Instruments
Foreign-investment and special economic zone instruments — such as the Foreign Investment Law and the Rason Economic and Trade Zone Law — and related Cabinet regulations, where available from official sources.
Case Law
Decisions of the Central Court of the DPRK and lower people's courts are not systematically published; case-law coverage would be added where authoritative sources become available.
One North Korean legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query North Korean laws, decrees, regulations, and constitutional materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. North Korea coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=KP&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to North Korean legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official North Korean materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current North Korean legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build North Korean legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with North Korean legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across North Korean legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in North Korean law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official North Korean sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal North Korean legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for North Korean legal research
North Korean legal information is spread across the Socialist Constitution, laws of the Supreme People's Assembly, Presidium decrees, Cabinet regulations, and state publication channels — much of it hard to locate, unevenly published, and available only in Korean. For humans, that means slow and uncertain research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About North Korea legal coverage
North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) operates a socialist legal system built on the Socialist Constitution, first adopted in 1972 and amended several times since. The Supreme People's Assembly is the highest organ of state power and adopts laws; its Presidium issues decrees between sessions, and the Cabinet issues decisions and directives. Statutes are organized into codes — including the Civil Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, and Socialist Labour Law — and disseminated through official state channels such as the Naenara portal, the Korean Central News Agency, and Rodong Sinmun rather than a Western-style openly accessible official gazette. The Central Court sits at the apex of the judiciary alongside the Central Public Prosecutors Office. Legal materials are published in Korean.
North Korean law is difficult to track: constitutional amendments and code revisions are announced through Supreme People's Assembly sessions and state media, often with limited public documentation, and special economic zone and foreign-investment rules evolve separately. Because provisions can change without a consolidated public record, point-in-time data drawn from official sources is what keeps a North Korea legal research answer defensible today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build North Korean legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor North Korean constitutional, statutory, and economic-zone changes across official sources — critical for sanctions, trade, and risk screening — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official North Korean legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to North Korean legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which North Korean sources you need first — the constitution, codified statutes, or economic-zone laws — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official North Korean legal data.