North Korea has removed the goal of peaceful reunification with South Korea from its party charter

North Korea has officially removed the wording regarding "peaceful reunification" with South Korea from the charter of the ruling Workers' Party. The full text of the updated document was published for the first time by South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy.

In the new edition, references to the "united front," South Korea, and "great national unity" have also disappeared. These changes solidify the approach proclaimed by Pyongyang, according to which North and South Korea are viewed as two separate states.

At the same time, the charter expanded the powers of the party's General Secretary Kim Jong Un and reduced the ideological wording dedicated to the achievements of his predecessors, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Pyongyang began establishing the course toward abandoning the previous model of relations with Seoul even earlier. In the updated Constitution of the DPRK, South Korea was already designated as a separate neighboring state, and the idea of reunifying the peninsula was excluded from the basic law.

Thus, the DPRK has completed its constitutional reform, officially abandoning the idea of reunification with South Korea and securing new powers for Kim Jong Un.