North Korea has modified the Constitution, reunification more and more distant | EUROtoday

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NEW DELHI – The North Korean information company KCNA has outlined South Korea as “a hostile state”, not directly confirming that final week the National People’s Congress amended the Constitution consistent with the indications of supreme chief Kim Jong Un of not take into account the reunification of the 2 nations a nationwide goal. Pyongyang’s official company used the brand new formulation in reporting that on Tuesday the North Korean military’s army engineers had blown up sections of roads and rail hyperlinks with South Korea as “legitimate action against a hostile state, as defined by constitution”.

An more and more remoted nation

Sixty meter sections of highway and railway on the northern facet of the border at the moment are fully impassable, a part of an operation of «full and progressive separation of the territory» from the South. «This is an inevitable and bonafide measure taken in accordance with the request of the Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which clearly defines the Republic of Korea as a hostile state”, reads the dispatch which uses the official names of the two countries. A satellite image taken on Wednesday showed the road leading to the northern city of Kaesong marked by a large crack in the asphalt.

South Korea’s Ministry of Unification “strongly” condemned the change to the Constitution and the characterization of it as a hostile state, and said it will not fail in its commitment to peaceful reunification.

Further reunification

In January, Kim called for a constitutional change to eliminate unification as a goal in relations with the South, accusing Seoul of working with the United States to try to bring down his regime. North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly met for two days last week, and several observers expected it to amend the Constitution to officially designate South Korea as a separate country and “principal enemy.”