North Korea Abandons Reunification With South Korea in Historic Shift
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North Korea has removed references to reunifying with the south of the Korean peninsula, signaling the latest push by the secretive state for a more hostile policy toward Seoul, experts believe.
"In North Korea's eyes, the two Koreas are now no longer part of the same 'Korea'—and this perception is now permanent," Edward Howell, University of Oxford international relations lecturer, told Newsweek, who added the news only reinforces North Korean rhetoric that South Korea is the North's principal foe and "most hostile" adversary.
North Korea's constitution had claimed authority over the entire Korean Peninsula, as did South Korea's own constitutional claim, and reunification was Pyongyang's stated goal for decades...
