North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned against anti-socialist moves in a letter delivered to a meeting of judges and prosecutors held for the first time in nearly 30 years, the North’s state news media said.

“A national meeting of active judges and prosecutors took place at the People’s Palace of Culture (in Pyongyang) on Monday,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an English-language dispatch released late Monday.

In a letter delivered to the meeting, Kim urged judges and prosecutors to “expose and foil in time moves of enemies, internal and external, for undermining the socialist system” of the North, the KCNA report said.

“The judicial and procuratorial institutions should ... bring about a drastic turn in carrying out their sacred mission of safeguarding the leader, policies, social system and the people,”

KCNA also quoted Kim as saying in the letter.

Kim also said in the letter that judges and prosecutors should “uphold with loyalty the party’s leadership with faith and conscience, stressing their role in safeguarding its socialist system,” the KCNA reported.

The Monday meeting of prosecutors and judges was held for the first time since a similar meeting in November, 1982, right after late leader Kim Jong-il was officially named successor to his father and the nation’s founder Kim Il-sung. It is also the first meeting since Kim Jong-un took over power following Kim Jong-il’s sudden death last December.

Experts said the latest gathering of prosecutors and judges is part of the Kim Jong-un regime’s on-going efforts to solidify its grip over core power groups as well as the leadership’s recent emphasis on public security. (Yonhap News)