North Korea calls South Korea 'hostile state' indicating constitution change


  • World
  • Thursday, 17 Oct 2024

Smoke rises after North Korea blows up sections of inter-Korean roads on its side of the border between the two Koreas, according to South Korea's military, as seen from the South Korean side, October 15, 2024, in this screen grab from a handout video. South Korean Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has designated South Korea a "hostile state", its state media said on Thursday, confirming that its national assembly had amended the constitution in line with their leader's vow to drop unification as a national goal.

The North's KCNA news agency reported that the military had blasted sections of road and rail links with South Korea on Tuesday as legitimate action against a hostile state as defined by the constitution.

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