N. Korea will no longer seek reconciliation with South because of hostility: Kim Jong-un

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (pic) said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, state media said on Tuesday (Jan 16).

The historic step to discard a decades-long pursuit of unification, which was based on a sense of national homogeneity shared by both Koreas, comes amid heightened tensions where the pace of both Kim’s weapons development and the South’s military exercises with the United States have intensified in a tit-for-tat.