North Korea has closed several agencies who work to promote cooperation and reunification with South KoreaNorth Korea’s official KCNA news agency announced Tuesday.
The decision was announced by the North Korean Parliamentaccording to KCNA, and comes several weeks after the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, said seeking reconciliation or reunification with the South would be a “mistake.”
Relations between the two Koreas worsened in the last yearwith the suspension of a military agreement signed in 2018 to contain tensions on the border after Pyongyang launched a spy satellite.
Calling Seoul his “main enemy,” Kim recently said attempts to reconcile or reunify the peninsula are “an error” that they shouldn’t try harder.
In their Constitutions, both the North and the South claim their sovereignty over the entire peninsula.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea (the official names of the North and the South) were founded 75 years ago, but they are still considered illegal entities and until now relations between the two were managed by the Ministry of Unification in Seoul and the Committee for Peaceful Reunification in Pyongyang, one of the agencies abolished by the North Korean assembly.
“The two most hostile states, which are at war, are now in a fierce clash on the Korean Peninsula,” reads the text approved by Parliament, according to KCNA.
“Korean reunification can never be achieved with the Republic of Korea,” he adds.
Source: Clarin
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