The decision, announced by North Korea’s parliament, according to the agency, comes a few weeks after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un said the pursuit of reconciliation and reunification was “a mistake.”
North Korea has moved to dismantle organizations working on future reunification with South Korea, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported today.
The decision, announced by North Korea’s parliament, according to the agency, comes a few weeks after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un said the pursuit of reconciliation and reunification was “a mistake.”
The neighboring states remain, technically, at war, as the Korean War (1950-1953) ended in an armistice, no peace agreement was ever signed.
Pyongyang and Seoul “are in a bitter conflict on the Korean peninsula” and “Korean reunification can never be achieved with South Korea,” the North Korean parliament’s decision stressed, according to KCNA.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated rapidly in 2023, especially over Pyongyang’s November launch of a spy satellite, a move that prompted Seoul to suspend a bilateral military cooperation agreement signed in 2018 aimed at de-escalating border tensions.
For Kim Jong Un, South Korea is his country’s “main enemy” and efforts to reunite with it are a mistake that “must not be committed.”
The Constitutions of both states claim national sovereignty over the entire Korean peninsula. The two states, founded 75 years ago, consider each other illegal.
The minimal diplomatic contacts between them were mainly handled—until the dissolution of North Korean institutions—on the South Korean side by the Ministry of Unification and on the North Korean side by the Committee for Peaceful Reunification, one of the organizations that Pyongyang abolished.
Source :Skai
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