North Korea is formally abolishing a handful of key government agencies charged with promoting cooperation and reunification with the South, state media reported Tuesday, Report informs via France 24.
The decision was announced by the North's rubber-stamp parliament, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, and came just weeks after the nation's leader, Kim Jong Un, stated that continuing to seek reconciliation with South Korea was a "mistake.".
Inter-Korean relations have sharply deteriorated this year, with Pyongyang's spy satellite launch prompting Seoul to partially suspend a 2018 military agreement aimed at defusing tensions.
Labeling South Korea the "principal enemy," Kim recently declared that efforts to reconcile and reunify with the North's rival" are a mistake that we should no longer make."
In their constitutions, both North and South Korea claim sovereignty over the whole of the peninsula.
