North Korea has republished its constitution on the state propaganda website Naenara, restoring public access to the full text about two years and eight months after the site disabled its constitutional section. The document says it was amended and supplemented by the Supreme People’s Assembly on March 23, 2026, according to MBC.
The published text incorporates Kim Jong Un’s policy of treating inter-Korean relations as relations between two separate states rather than members of one nation pursuing unification. Article 2 describes North Korean territory as adjoining China and Russia to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south, formally identifying South Korea as a neighboring country. It does not specify a land or maritime boundary between the two states.
Separate statehood enters the constitutional text
The constitution also removes provisions concerning national unification that appeared in the previous text. The changes follow Kim’s declaration at a Workers’ Party meeting in late 2023 that the two Koreas were hostile states at war, and his January 2024 instruction to delete constitutional language referring to the northern half of Korea and peaceful unification.
- Amendment date stated in the text
- March 23, 2026
- South Korea’s constitutional status
- A neighboring country on North Korea’s southern side
- Unification provisions
- Removed from the published constitution
The wording stops short of incorporating some of Kim’s strongest descriptions of South Korea. The published constitution does not designate the country as North Korea’s “primary hostile state” or “invariable principal enemy.” That distinction limits what can be concluded from the text: the constitution formalizes separate statehood and removes unification language, but it does not reproduce every hostile political formulation attributed to Kim’s policy.
Naenara disabled its constitution section in March 2024, preventing readers from checking the detailed provisions during the policy shift. The newly available version broadly matches the constitutional text disclosed by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification in May, MBC reported. Further amendments or official explanations will show whether North Korea later adds a defined inter-Korean boundary or stronger enemy-state terminology to the constitutional framework.