People offer flowers at the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument on the ‘Day of the Sun’, marking the birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea. File
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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 reviewed by Reuters, 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 (May 6, 2026).
Published – May 06, 2026 12:35 pm IST
