North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has solidified his monolithic leadership, creating a "state affairs commission" to run the regime.

The North’s Korean Central Television Wednesday night reported about the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly(SPA) in Pyongyang, during which the young leader was appointed as the head of the newly-installed commission.

The state affairs commission replaces the National Defense Commission(NDC), which Kim led as the chairman.

The one-day SPA session was held after the seventh congress of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party last month. During the event, Kim was unanimously elected as the "Chairman of the Workers' Party," a position once held by North Korean founder and his grandfather Kim Il-sung. 

The North has customarily convened a SPA session to approve changes in government policies. The SPA is largely considered as a rubber-stamp organization for the North Korean dictatorship. 

Kim was absent in the two previous parliamentary sessions, held in September 2014 and April 2015.