North Korea has likely expanded and reorganized its military spy agency as part of efforts to strengthen foreign intelligence gathering by placing more satellites into orbit, according to Seoul’s unification ministry.

At a briefing on Monday, spokesperson Koo Byung-sam said the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) appears to have been upgraded to a larger entity called the General Reconnaissance Information Bureau, citing the first mention of the new name in a statement by a senior DPRK military official.

The unification ministry is “monitoring the likelihood that the North has enhanced its capacity for gathering and analyzing external intelligence” following the launch