[6] In May 2024, after Kim Jong Un called for large changes in North Korea's reunification policy, South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho said that the UFD has been demoted and changed into the "Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee 10 Bureau" and said that they believe the reorganized entity is tasked with psychological warfare.

[7] Seoul-based Daily NK also reported major shifts, saying that most of the duties and staff of the UFD was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).

[8] Administratively, UFD reports as an agency of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (SCCWPK).

Not much is known about these organizations because South Korean intelligence services have been reluctant to release information out of security concerns.

North Korea typically deals with front organizations instead of the South Korean government which lacks legitimacy in its eyes.

It tends to view the region as a manageable risk with a high profit, which is not universally agreed upon in the North Korean administration.

[24] Its methods include psychological warfare through the radio and TV, loudspeakers, leaflets, visual displays,[25] and websites.

According to reports, "The United Front Department wages its cyber psychological warfare through some 140 sites with servers based in 19 countries.

[29] Jang Jin-sung, a poet and North Korean defector, worked for the UFD before escaping the country.