North Korea has officially declared South Korea as a “hostile” state in its constitution, marking the first time Pyongyang has acknowledged the legal changes called for by leader Kim Jong Un earlier this year.
The announcement was made after North Korean soldiers destroyed the roads and railroads that connected the two Koreas earlier this week, according to North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA ), calling it an “unavoidable and legitimate step taken in accordance with the DPRK Constitution’s requirements, which clearly define the ROK as a hostile state.”
Kim, who described Seoul as his nation’s “principal opponent” in January and expressed disinterest in reconciliation, has hit a new lower in the two Koreas ‘ relationships.
According to KCNA, the North Korean army’s new behavior to actually close South Korea’s roads and railroads were “part of the gradual full separation of its place, where its independence is exercised, from the ROK’s place.”
Last month, North Korea held a key gathering of its rubber-stamp legislature, confirming the revisions to the government’s simple law in line with Kim’s needs. The condition media, however, did not provide any additional information regarding the legal changes.
Previously, under a 1991 inter-Korean accord, relations between the North and South were defined as a” special relationship” as part of a process aimed at eventual reunification, rather than state-to-state relations.
North Korea has furthermore accused Seoul of deploying drones to cut anti-regime advertising flyers on the country’s capital Pyongyang in addition to the frontier reinforcements. In response, Kim set up a safety meeting to lay out a plan for “immediate military action.” Seoul’s military first denied sending robots north, but they have since made no comment on the situation.
Activist groups in the South have long sent advertising northwards, usually carried by bubbles, and fans have been known to travel small, hard-to-detect robots made of expanded polyester into the North.
Five of Pyongyang’s robots crossed the border in 2022, prompting the South Vietnamese military to issue warning shots and build fighter jet, which inevitably failed to take down any of the robots.
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