North Korea has revised its constitution to abandon the aim of reunification with Seoul, redefining itself for the first time in more than 70 years as a separate country from its longtime southern adversary.
The change, which formalised leader Kim Jong Un’s intention to drop his regime’s commitment to eventual reunification, was disclosed by an academic at a press conference hosted by the South Korean Unification Ministry on Wednesday.
The new text states that “the territory of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea includes the territory bordering the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south, and the territorial sea and airspace established on it”.