North Korea is likely to formalize further Kim Jong Un‘s “hostile” stance toward the South next week when its legislature meets to revise the country’s constitution, according to a new assessment out of Seoul.
North Korean state media said last month that a key meeting of the government’s Supreme People’s Assembly would take place next Monday. The South’s Ministry of Unification, responsible for overseeing inter-Korean integration across all sectors, believes the regime will use the event as a platform to institutionalize Kim’s call to end all possibility of political reconciliation, the Yonhap News Agency said on Wednesday. North Korea’s embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a written request for comment.
Tensions have spiraled on the Korean Peninsula ever since Kim described relations with South Koreaas those between “two hostile states” at a year-end meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party. It was a significant shift away from a decades-long understanding of the “special relationship” between the two sides, which …