South Korea Confirms DPRK Constitution Drops Reunification; Kim Commissions First Destroyer

South Korea's government officially confirmed that North Korea's revised constitution — amended by the Supreme People's Assembly in March 2026 — removes all references to peaceful reunification and redefines DPRK territory as encompassing only the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. The constitutional change formalizes Kim Jong Un's two-state doctrine, abandoning decades of official DPRK reunification policy and signaling permanent division. Separately, Kim Jong Un personally rode North Korea's first naval destroyer, the Choe Hyon, off the west coast and ordered it commissioned by mid-June 2026, pledging to build two additional destroyers as part of naval modernization.