North Korea removes articles of its state media, which mention the possibility of unification with the South, reports Renhap.
North Korea's approach to South Korea has changed in recent decades. Although she often called the south of her "swollen" and "main enemy" and threatened to "destroy" his nuclear weapons, sometimes she also entered the dialogue and discussed a possible reunion.
However, according to state media reports on Tuesday, North Korea officially abandoned peaceful reunification as a key political goal. Declaring the radical shift, the leader of the North Kim Jong -in stated that the north no longer considers the South as a "partner for reconciliation and reunification", but rather an enemy, which needs to be subordinate, if necessary, with the help of nuclear war, writes The New York Times.
In recent decades, the reunification of the two Koreas has become increasingly unlikely, as the economic gap between them has increased and the mutual enmity has deepened.
Kim has released his new position on South Korea at the party meeting at the end of last month and in the speech he made on Monday in front of the North Korea Parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly.
He also ordered the Constitution of North Korea, as well as the governing principles of its propaganda, to exclude the mention of "peaceful reunification", "great national unity" or of the South Koreans as "compatriots", as well as to instill its people's opinion that the South was "a foreign country".
"We can prescribe in our Constitution the issue of full occupation, subordination and return of the LCD and annexation of it as part of the territory of our republic in the event of the war on the Korean Peninsula," Kim said.
In recent months, he has promoted his new policy, criticizing the in -depth South Korean military union with Washington under the leadership of a conservative president. Kim named the expansion of joint military exercises between the Allies with dangerous provocation and called it an excuse for the production of more nuclear weapons and the threat of its use against the south.
"We do not want war, but we are not going to avoid it," he said. "If the enemies ignite the war, our republic will strongly punish the enemies, mobilizing all its military forces, including nuclear weapons."
Having approved the new Kim's policy, the North Korea Parliament has dissolved all government agencies responsible for assistance in exchanges with the South, the state media reported. According to South Korean officials, last week, North Korea also closed radio programs and propaganda websites that promote Korea reunification. Kim also ordered to demolish propaganda monuments dedicated to the same purpose.
Yun, the South Korean leader, criticized Mr Kim as "anti -national" and "anti -historical" policies.
"If the north begins to provoke, we will be in response to a repeated blow," Yun said on Tuesday in response to Kim's speech. "Its threat to" choose between war and peace "will no longer work."
