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Ok, now, can you conceive that the Kim family's role is more representative as in a constitutional monarchy (such as that of my homeland of Spain) than it is de-facto monarchical power? I'm not saying that the DPRK's parliament is democratically elected, I'm questioning whether we can, with the information at our disposal in the west, affirm that the politics of the DPRK are controlled by one particular family and not by, say, the cadres of their communist party.
Firstly, to say that Kim family is merely ceremonial mean you have to proof that someone else is running the show, that hatched all the plans, that have the final say. We don't have that information. What we have is he is the single most powerful person in North Korea, that rule and guide the country, that inherited the power from his father.
Of course, a king need a general and a treasurer, whether they are the one in control or not is not a known fact, and that will remained a mystery until someone close to them speak.
So yes, with the information the world have, we can safely say North Korea is run by a single family.
I don't doubt this, but you could have said the same about Queen Elizabeth before she got in a box
This requires more evidence. What's your evidence for this? What material reasons do you have to believe that the decisions come from Kim personally and not from the communist party?
I can also say the same for all prime minister and president in country without monarch and with constitutional monarch. That is exactly what a leader of the country are. What is exactly your point here?
Let me do one better: what is your evidence that say otherwise?
A society whose results don't match those of a personal monarchic dictatorship. For example, Saudi Arabia, a widely known example of a monarchy with absolutist power, has 80% of the population composed of immigrants without rights who get stripped of their passports and get treated as slaves. There's no public healthcare, no infrastructure for poor people (trains, public schools, people-centered urbanism...), etc.
In the DPRK, there's widespread public transit infrastructure with trains and trams, public education for everyone, public healthcare, good workers' rights relative to their level of development, people-centered urban planning, collectivized agriculture... You wouldn't expect any of these things from an absolutist monarchy.
Constitutional monarchy is pretty clear about what it supposed to be: it must have a democratic elected leader and a monarch that have very limited power. Not only that, to be a democratic country, one must go through an election with two or more opponents, so single party election with no opposition is not quite a democracy. While autocracy need none of those feature, and it usually ruled by unelected, and mostly inherited power from the predecessor.
With that in mind, we look at what North Korea is. It doesn't have a fair election with multiple parties(only one single giant coalition), that alone would disqualify NK as a democratic country, and it doesn't have a monarch as well. Thus it's not considered a constitutional monarchy.
Yes, we can definitively prove that the NK political theater is run by the Kim family. Watch any video of their "congress" meeting, and it's just a group of NPCs clapping mindlessly to everything Kim Jong il says.
"Political power comes from televised claps"
-No serious political analysis ever
Being intentionally obtuse doesn't make you look smarter.
Your entire knowledge of the DPRK comes from western propaganda, I'm not the obtuse one here. Tell me how many times you've gone "actually, let's see" and tried to read something about the country? You're analyzing the political structure of a country based on 3 news shots from western sources.
Ah yes, South Korean interviews of North Koreans that have managed to flee the country- classic western propaganda. Fellate yourself less, maybe?