SEOUL: North Korea has deleted all references to uniting with South Korea from its constitution, a document reviewed on Wednesday showed, underscoring Pyongyang’s push for a more hostile policy towards Seoul.

North and South Korea remain technically at war because their 1950-53 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Pyongyang’s constitution had previously contained a clause stating that it aimed “to realise the unification of the motherland”.

That reference no longer appears in the latest version, presented on Wednesday by a professor during a news conference at South Korea’s Unification Ministry.

North Korean officials considered constitutional amendments at a major congress in March, where leader Kim Jong Un labelled Seoul as the “most hostile state”.

The deleted clause used to say that the nuclear-armed nation would struggle for “national reunification on the principles of independence, peaceful reunification, and great national unity”.

The revised constitution, which the document indicated was introduced in March, also includes a new clause delineating North Korea’s territory.

Published in Dawn, May 7th, 2026