Seoul ¨C North Korea has revised its constitution to define its territory as bordering South Korea and remove references to reunification, according to a draft of the ?text, codifying leader Kim Jong Un¡¯s push to treat the two ?Koreas as ?separate states.
The revision, believed to have been adopted at a ?March meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, Pyongyang's rubber-stamp legislature, marks the first time North Korea has added a territorial clause to its constitution, Lee Jung-chul, a Seoul National University professor, ?told a briefing at South Korea¡¯s Unification Ministry on Wednesday.
The new Article 2 says North Korea¡¯s ?territory includes land "bordering the People¡¯s Republic of China and the Russian Federation to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south,¡± as well ?as territorial waters and airspace based ?on that land, according to the text.
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