North Korea created a new top government entity and appointed Kim Jong Un as its chairman, the state-run Korean Central Television and Korean Central News Agency revealed Wednesday.

At the fourth session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly – the North’s rubber-stamp legislature – Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the SPA and North Korea’s de jure head-of-state, announced that Kim Jong Un would be appointed chairman of the new State Affairs Commission.

The new State Affairs Commission replaces the National Defense Commission, which was previously regarded as the highest decision-making body in the DPRK government (outside of