In a surprise, North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) concluded its latest session on Tuesday without announcing sweeping constitutional unification and border changes proposed by leader Kim Jong Un in January. 

Kim’s remarks at the time called for officially designating South Korea as an “invariable principle enemy,” abandoning the long-standing goal of unification and reinterpreting the North’s border lines — particularly the contentious Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea. But while state media made no mention of related constitutional changes on Wednesday, the Korean People’s Army (KPA) released a statement announcing