North Korea’s external propaganda site Naenara on Wednesday posted the full text of the country’s amended constitution, restoring a constitution section it had taken offline in March 2024, about two years and eight months ago. The posting states the text was amended and supplemented on March 23, 2026, at the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, and it is the first time Pyongyang has itself published the amended text.
The text confirms the two states line Kim Jong Un declared at the end of 2023. A new Article 2 defines North Korea’s territory as the land bordering China and Russia to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south, together with its territorial waters and airspace, without specifying a concrete land or sea boundary line. The old constitution’s reunification provisions have been deleted, though the text does not name South Korea the number one hostile state or an immutable chief enemy. Provisions strengthening the state chairman’s position are also confirmed, including his command of the nuclear forces and his power to delegate nuclear weapons use authority to the national nuclear forces command body.
The publication formalises externally what Seoul already knew: South Korea’s Unification Ministry obtained and published a version of the amended text in May, and the Naenara version matches it in substance, with two minor administrative clauses present in the posted text that the ministry’s version had treated as deleted. Kim ordered the constitutional break in January 2024, directing that references to the northern half, independent and peaceful reunification, and great national unity be removed.