The rules of North Korea’s Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Party are among the most important codifications in the country, showing the overall direction of the Party on domestic and foreign affairs — and they were recently revised after five years.

NK Pro obtained the full text of the documents and has provided partial excerpts and translations of the most noteworthy revisions.

There is a general consensus among North Korea experts that the most important change is the introduction of the position of the First Secretary of the WPK’s Central Committee, which is the deputy of leader Kim Jong Un,