The promotion of the North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong has put her in charge of a highly secretive party organ that plays a central role in overseeing the implementation of state policies, as well as in governing the flow of information to and from the leader.

In other words, to get to Kim Jong Un, you now have to go through Kim Yo Jong.

State media revealed over the weekend that Kim Yo Jong now leads the Workers’ Party of Korea’s General Affairs Department (GAD), after previously announcing her promotion to a department director at the Ninth Party