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North Korea announced Thursday that its constitution now considers the South an “enemy state,” in Pyongyang’s first official confirmation of the legal changes requested by leader Kim Jong Un earlier this year.
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The official North Korean News Agency said that the North this week blew up roads and railway lines connecting to the South as an “inevitable and legitimate measure taken in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which clearly considers. The Republic of South Korea is a hostile state.”
She added that these land and rail routes, previously used for trade between the two countries, have become “completely closed by explosions.”
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that North Korea “blow up parts of the Gyeonggi and Donghae Roads north of the military demarcation line,” in a new episode in the series of escalating tensions between the two countries.
The South Korean army published video clips showing North Korean forces blowing up sections of the two lanes of the road and excavators in one.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry condemned the “completely abnormal” provocation, recalling that the construction of these roads was largely financed by Seoul.