North Korea has formally amended its constitution to designate South Korea as a “hostile state,” marking a definitive end to its decades-long policy of seeking peaceful reunification. Under the direction of leader Kim Jong Un, the state has removed language referring to South Koreans as fellow countrymen or partners in reconciliation. This legal shift codifies North Korea’s new stance that the two nations are separate, belligerent entities at war, further escalating tensions on the peninsula and signaling a move toward permanent division.
- The North Korean constitution now officially defines South Korea as a “hostile state.”
- Leader Kim Jong Un has formally abandoned the long-standing national goal of peaceful reunification.
- References to a shared ethnicity and terminology such as “fellow countrymen” have been removed from the constitution.
- The constitutional change follows the physical destruction of road and rail links that once connected the two countries.
- The shift signals a transition to a “two-state” policy, viewing the South as a primary enemy rather than a partner for reconciliation.
- The amendments were confirmed during a meeting of the Supreme People’s Assembly, North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament.
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North and South Korea are still technically at war following the conflict that ended with the partition of the Korean Peninsula in 1953. What do you think the change to North Korea's consititution removing the goal of reunification means for future relations?
Korea will unify but under North Korean rule. They just have to wait until South Korea faces demographic collapse. Game over.
I think south korean secretly despise their poor north korean neighbors. I feel young korean would fear mass poor north korean pour into south korean city and lower wage and standard of living if unification happens…
Nope. South Korea did NOT establish a democratic government in 1948. It established a Western-aligned dictatorship, that only transitioned to democracy in the 1990s.
North Korea like South Korea but like in the Korean War, each side wants to unify the peninsula under their own respective governments. North Korea play the long game waiting until South Korea’s legitimacy collapses, or turn authoritarian again then South Korean does need to rely on democracy to maintain a democratic image.
It’s the US trying to urge neoliberal south korean war hawks to actively disparage and attack north korea, not the other way around. North korea is the one that wants to keep stability and seperation.
China would never allow them to reconcile
All of this mess, is perpetrated by the American republican party! The great one Donald is with his band of unqualified rich people.
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3:16 South Korea established its own CAPITALIST government. It was HARDLY partcularly democratic at the time.
Realistically, North Korea won't fall until the PRC falls. Until then, the PRC will want to preserve North Korea as a buffer between itself and South Korea, US forces, Japan, etc.
reunification was never going to happen peacefully. N Korean leadership knows, millions of Koreans would exact Kaddafi type street justice upon the regime leadership as soon as they had the opportunity
North Korea has a constitution? 😂 I find that funny
China will never ever allow reunification of North and South Korea…..
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North Korea under Kim Jong Un has already expressed this repeatedly over the years, I remember Kim Jong Un mentioning to his people that they won't go for reunification anymore and even the Arch of Reunification was demolished.
This means that North Korea feels a significant threat from the rise in South Korea's national power and is shifting to a defensive stance. I heard that East Germany took such measures in the 1970s, and that it led to reunification.
Kim knows that he’s people would struggle to understand the level of technology and freedom in the south
Otto Warmbier American college student rest in peace.
North Korea is really one to call anyone hostile. No amount of money does justice to the level of inhumanities that take place there. Un is starving his own people to death. I saw a pbs program about it that had been smuggled out of there. That is why in 2017 a travel ban was placed from Americans even going there.
Reunification would mean North Korea loses power over all it’s citizens