North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks at the second day of the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang on March 23 in this photo carried by the Korean Central News Agency on March 24. [YONHAP]
The South Korean government will review North Korea’s recent constitutional revision, through which the North defined the South as a separate state, the Blue House said Thursday.
“We will thoroughly review matters related to developments surrounding North Korea’s constitutional revision,” a Blue House official said. “The government will consistently pursue a policy of peaceful coexistence on the Korean Peninsula based on the comprehensive review.”
The preamble of North Korea's revised Constitution was disclosed during a press briefing for the press corps at the Ministry of Unification on Wednesday.
In the recent revision, phrases such as "northern half," "national reunification" and "complete victory of socialism," which had appeared in the previous version, were removed from both the preamble and the main text.
Those provisions had been included in the Constitution revised in September 2023, when North Korea officially declared inter-Korean relations to be relations between two separate states. The latest revision effectively removes the concepts of ethnic kinship and reunification with South Korea from the Constitution.
North Korea also newly added a territorial clause to the revised Constitution, declaring that the territory of the North consists of land “bordering China and Russia to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south, as well as territorial waters and airspace established on that basis.”
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.
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