North Korea to convene National Assembly next month - will there be a discussion on amending the constitution to designate South Korea as an ”enemy country”?

North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, equivalent to the Japanese Diet, is expected to convene in September. On the 20th of this month, North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea, announced that the assembly will be convened on the 20th of next month.
The 13th session of the 14th session of the Korean People's Congress was decided on the 13th day of the 14th session. South Korean media reported that the issue of constitutional amendments that would label South Korea as an "enemy" may be discussed.
The Lee Jae-myung administration is trying to shift from the hard-line stance taken by the previous Yoon Seok-yeol administration to a more conciliatory one, aiming to resume dialogue, but the North Korean side has not responded well.
According to North Korean media, Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of Kim Jong-un, vice director of the Workers' Party of Korea, spoke at a meeting with senior Foreign Ministry officials on the 19th about the Ri administration's "conciliatory" policy.
He sarcastically commented that North Korea is "desperately trying to repay their debt of gratitude." The Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea meets once or twice a year to decide on the national budget, legal reforms, personnel affairs for state institutions, and other matters.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, which cited the Korean Central News Agency as reporting, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea held a general meeting on the 19th and announced that the Supreme People's Assembly on the 20th of next month will decide on the Grain Management Law and the Intellectual Property Law.
The law on property rights was deliberated and adopted. It was decided to discuss the issue of the implementation, inspection and supervision of the Urban Management Law. The United Front said, "There was no mention of amending the Socialist Constitution, but the issue of constitutional amendment was raised.
Under the previous South Korean administration, relations between North and South Korea had cooled, and in a speech at the Supreme People's Assembly in January last year, Kim Jong Un stated in the constitution that South Korea was "the number one hostile country, the unchanging main enemy."
He emphasized the need to mark the end of the 80-year history of North-South relations. Kim declared, "We will completely cut off everything that connects North and South Korea near the Military Demarcation Line."
After that, North Korean soldiers began laying mines near the military demarcation line around April last year. At the time, South Korea saw this as a measure to create a visible "border" between the North and the South.
However, the work on constitutional reform that Kim Jong-il stressed is still not believed to be complete. Meanwhile, in South Korea, the Lee Jae-myung administration was launched in June of this year.
He expressed his desire to cease hostile acts with North Korea and resume dialogue and cooperation. Shortly after taking office, Lee ordered an end to anti-North Korean propaganda broadcasts near the inter-Korean military demarcation line, which had been continued by the previous administration.
The broadcast was carried out using a large speaker and included appeals to the public that South Korea's democratic system is superior to North Korea's political system, criticism of the North Korean regime, news from South Korea and abroad, and South Korean songs.
The broadcasts were said to have a significant psychological impact on North Korean soldiers. As a follow-up measure to the suspension of the broadcasts, the South Korean military removed the speakers themselves this month.
The Lee administration wants to resume dialogue with North Korea by demonstrating a "conciliatory attitude," but the North Korean side has not responded favorably.
Last month, he issued a statement saying, "If South Korea hopes that a few sentimental words can erase all the consequences of its actions, it could not have made a greater mistake," and added, "What kind of
Even if such a policy is adopted or such a proposal is made, we have no interest in it, and we would like to reiterate our official position that there is no reason to seek dialogue with South Korea and no issues to discuss.
Regarding the measure to stop the propaganda broadcasts, he said, "It is just a return to what should not have been done. It is not something that will be praised.
Kim Yo Jong also released a statement on the 14th of this month. After the South Korean side removed the speakers, the North also removed some of the speakers that were used for "noise broadcasts" to South Korea.
In response, Kim Yo-jong said, "It has been made clear many times that North Korea has absolutely no intention of improving relations with South Korea."
"South Korea has been portrayed as the most hostile force in the national law, and this must be established forever," he said.
With Yo-jong mentioning constitutional reform, attention is focused on whether the amendment will be discussed at the Supreme People's Assembly, which is scheduled to be convened in September.
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