With this Kim renounces his desire for the reunification of the peninsula
North Korea officially declared South Korea a “hostile state” this Thursday (17), in another chapter of the recent escalation of tension between the countries.
Last week the North’s government made a change to the Constitution, in line with leader Kim Jong-un’s promise to renounce reunification.
North Korea’s state news agency KCNA justified the move as “inevitable and legitimate in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution which clearly define the Republic of Korea as a hostile state.”
Pyongyang also reported that the main roads and railways between the two nations were “completely blocked by the explosions”, in line with images released last Tuesday by Seoul’s army (15).
A 1991 inter-Korean agreement defined relations between North and South as part of a process aimed at possible reunification between the states. Kim, however, called for constitutional change in a speech in January, when he threatened war if Seoul violated “even 0.001 millimeters” of North Korea’s territory.
South Korea maintains its policy of seeking national reunification. Bilateral relations between the two Koreas worsened after the North accused the South of sending drones loaded with propaganda leaflets in October, while Kim called a meeting to prepare an “immediate military action plan”.
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Source: Terra
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