As reported today by the state news agency ACNC, the legislative body will ‘discuss various issues, including amending and supplementing the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK’, without providing details on the eventual changes to the country’s Magna Carta.

Earlier this year, at the 11th Session, the general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of State Affairs of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, raised the need to amend the Constitution.

On that occasion, Kim once again pointed out that the Korean Peninsula has become a virtual theater of war due to the threats and provocations of the U.S. and its allies.

The enemies’ warmongering fever compels us to march on the path of strengthening the national self-defense capability in order to ensure peace for the country, the people and the generations to come, he said at the time.

He also referred to the decision by the Supreme People’s Assembly to dissolve the mechanisms for reconciliation with south Korea, namely the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the Directorate for the Collaboration of National Economy and the Directorate for International Tourism to Mt.

He said that the bitter history of inter-Korean relations showed the impossibility of following the path of territorial reunification as Seoul had adopted confrontation as its state policy and was striving for ‘regime collapse’ and ‘unification through absorption’.

In this context, the leader called for amending the DPRK’s Constitution to make clear the rejection of several articles of the South Korean Constitution of an openly aggressive and hostile nature.

In its note of the date, ACNC reported that the 11th Session will also discuss laws on foreign economic relations, light industry and quality control.

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