The country blew up roads and railways linking it to the South this week as ‘an inevitable and legitimate measure taken in keeping with the requirement of the DPRK Constitution which clearly defines the ROK as a hostile state,’ the official Korean Central News Agency said.
SEOUL - North Korea said Thursday that its constitution now defines the South as a"hostile" state, the first time Pyongyang has confirmed legal changes called for by leader Kim Jong Un earlier this year.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of the lowest points in years, after Kim in January defined Seoul as his country's"principal enemy" and said they were no longer interested in reunification. North Korea said that sections of the key inter-Korean roads and railways had"been completely blocked through blasting."
Kim called for the constitutional change in a speech in January, during which he threatened war if the South were to violate"even 0.001 mm of our territorial land, air and waters."Seoul has said the North Korean military had been clearing land and laying fresh mines along the border for months, as part of a drive to reinforce the border, which the South claims is largely to prevent defections by Pyongyang's own citizens.
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