North Korea’s Kim Yong Chol has been replaced as director of the ruling party Central Committee’s United Front Department (UFD), a lawmaker from the South Korean National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee told local media on Wednesday.

Citing a briefing from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), multiple South Korean outlets reported, Lee Hye-hoon said that Jang Kum Chol had been tapped to replace Kim.

The news, should it be confirmed, would see Kim Yong Chol step down from the powerful position less than three years after taking up the post in May 2016.

His purported replacement, Jang Kum Chol, was earlier in the