North Korea Abandons Unification Efforts , With ‘Principal Enemy’ South Korea.<br />On Jan. 16, Kim Jong Un called for his country's constitution to be rewritten to define its southern neighbor as North Korea's "primary foe and invariable principal enemy," NBC News reports. .<br />North Korea's government agencies <br />tasked with maintaining relations with <br />South Korea were also abolished. .<br />Additionally, Kim ordered to "completely eliminate such concepts as ‘reunification,’ ‘reconciliation’ <br />and ‘fellow countrymen’ from the <br />national history of our republic.".<br />The actions abandon a decades-long attempt at unification between the two countries. .<br />It is the final conclusion drawn from the bitter history of the inter-Korean relations that we cannot go along the road of national restoration and reunification together. , Kim Jong Un, via statement.<br />Kim cited the trilateral cooperation of South Korea, Japan and the U.S. for making the Korean Peninsula <br />a "war-risk zone," NBC News reports. .<br />He went on to say that nuclear activity <br />in the area would terminate South Korea <br />and usher "unimaginable disaster <br />and defeat to the United States.".<br />South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said, "Should North Korea provoke us, we will punish them multiple times as hard," according to 'The Korea Times.'.<br />Yoon added that North Korea's <br />"fake peace tactic that threatened us to choose between ‘war’ and ‘peace’ no longer works."
