North Korea Revises Constitution to Remove Reunification Clause and Add Territorial Language
The revision codifies Kim Jong Un’s push to treat the Koreas as separate states and places nuclear command authority in his hands.
- North Korea has revised its constitution, removing reunification references and codifying leader Kim Jong-un's "two hostile states" doctrine, according to documents reviewed on Wednesday.
- Kim labeled South Korea the "primary foe and invariable principal enemy" in January 2024, pursuing a more hostile policy while rebuffing repeated dialogue overtures from South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
- Article two now defines North Korea's territory, while a separate defense clause designates the country a "responsible nuclear weapons state," placing nuclear command under the State Affairs Commission chairman.
- Seoul National University professor Lee Jung-chul briefed the Unification Ministry on Wednesday, suggesting the omission of specific borders aims to avoid immediate friction between the two Koreas.
- Pyongyang has increasingly aligned with Russia, sending troops and artillery to support the war in Ukraine, while maintaining its "most hostile" stance toward South Korea in recent years.
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When early in 2024, Kim Jong-un, the leader of the hermetic North Korea, called for a constitutional reform to bury the aspiration for reunification with South Korea, many analysts anticipated that Pyongyang would move that turn to an openly hostile text toward his neighbor. The North Korean president had even asked that the Magna Carta pick up the idea of “occupy, subjugate and fully claim” the South and “exist” it in the event of war. But the …
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