North Korea Rewrites Its Constitution, Erasing the Dream of a Unified Korea
North Korea has quietly but decisively revised its constitution, stripping out decades-old language calling for reunification and formally recognizing two separate Korean states. Per reports, the revision was likely adopted at a March meeting of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly and disclosed on May 6 at a news conference by South Korea’s Unification Ministry. It removes language calling for the “peaceful reunification” of the Korean Peninsula, language that had been




