The North has axed a 78-year-old organization tasked with promoting eventual reunification with the South.
North Korea has dismantled an influential organization formed to promote eventual reunification with the South, with Pyongyang-Seoul relations at their most fraught in decades.During a Saturday meeting of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea's Central Committee, members decided the DFRK was no longer necessary at a time of hostility with 'principal enemy' Seoul and formally dissolved it, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday.
During Saturday's meeting, it was determined that Seoul was not a 'partner for reconciliation and reunification' but rather 'the most hostile state, invariable principal enemy and completely foreign country.' Central Committee members reached a consensus to dissolve the DFRK.North Korea's embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
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