Organizations Cabinet Ministries North Korean nationality law details the conditions in which an individual is a national of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea.

This led to situations which were quite unusual from the perspective of international law, most notably the Soviet Union's unilateral declaration that the Sakhalin Koreans were DPRK citizens—in effect, one sovereign state granting its residents the citizenship of another sovereign state, presumably without any consultation.

The new law also established that foreigners could gain DPRK nationality by naturalisation.

However, such certificates have become more difficult to obtain as of 2011[update], according to South Korean media reports.

As the SPA is a rubber-stamp legislature, actual naturalisation powers lie in whoever the Supreme Leader of North Korea is at the time.