현재 이북5도의 각 도지사가 정부로부터 임명되고 미수복 지구의 명예 시장·군수·읍·면장 제도가 1980년 8월에 대통령령으로 법제화되었다.
At present, each Do governor of the five North Korean Provinces is appointed by the government, and the honorary mayor, gun, eup, and myeon head system of unrecovered districts was legislated by Presidential Decree in August 1980.