North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the headquarters of the country’s secret police, ordinary police and top court on Tuesday to mark their 80th anniversaries, according to state media, calling the law enforcement agencies responsible for defending his absolute rule the “Party’s political guard.”

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) billed Kim’s visit to the Ministry of State Security in its report on Wednesday as the most important of his three stops.

The Ministry of State Security(MSS) is the country’s secret police agency tasked with eliminating ideological and political opposition to the three-generation Kim family dictatorship. It is