North Korea announced that it has enshrined Kim Jong Un’s “five-point party-building line” as the new ideological foundation for the ruling party, a move that solidifies his place at the top of the country’s hierarchy.

The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) revised its rules during its ongoing Ninth Congress to “usher in a golden age of strengthening the whole Party with the five-point party-building line in the new era as its ideo-theoretical guidelines,” state media reported Monday.

The strategy itself is vaguely defined in official propaganda, and some experts suggest it is largely