When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turned his back on unification with South Korea late last year, he pointed to a clause in the ROK constitution to underline how Seoul’s aim of “unification by absorption” has never changed, justifying his decision to redefine the South as a separate enemy state.

Indeed, since 1948, the South’s constitution has stipulated that its territory contains “the Korean Peninsula and its attached islands.”

However, what Kim failed to mention is that North Korea also claimed all of Korea when it adopted its 1948 constitution. 

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