National Defence Commission
The chairman is formally elected by the Supreme People's Assembly (article 91:5) and serves for terms of office of five years (articles 101 &amp; 90:1); but in practice, the office is hereditary within the Kim Dynasty, as the late Kim Jong-il was posthumously designated as the "eternal chairman of the National Defence Commission", while his son, Kim Jong-un, was appointed as the "first chairman of the National Defence Commission".