Talk:List of hereditary monarchies

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I believe Andorra should be deleted from the list. 1) It is a diarchy, not a monarchy. 2) Neither of the co-prince positions is transferred by hereditary rule. --88.64.27.6 (talk) 17:46, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

I agree: it should either be a list of all monarchies, and also include other elective monarchies such as the Vatican and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and have a different title, or it should not include Andorra. Note that in the former case, the first section would end up being a much less organised version of List of current monarchies. Adam Dent (talk) 11:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

I believe North Korea qualifies as a hereditary monarchy since 2013, when the Ten Fundamental Principles of the KWP stipulated that North Korea and the Workers’ Party will be “kept alive forever by the Baekdu bloodline”. Baekdu Mountain is the highest on the Korean Peninsula and the ‘Baekdu bloodline’ refers to the Kim family. Tus, the fact that the son inherited the post from the father following his death is not merely an excuse, but is now being legitimate and set as a principle. There is the issue however, as the 10 principles of the KWP aren't the constitutional act of the country, adn the constitution still defines the country as a republic. I believe the best solution for this is to open the "Hereditary Republic" section. This would however require making a separate "hereditary republic" independent article, since the concept is being speculated in the media, scholarly sources. However, while some countires experienced non-institutionalized hereditary statesmanship succession, the DPRK is the first to make a move towards legal grounding of the concept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.148.129.158 (talk) 00:08, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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