North Korea Removes Images Of Korean Peninsula From Various Main Sites

Kim Jong-un (Photo: KCNA)

JAKARTA - North Korea removed images of the Korean Peninsula from its various main sites after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called South Korea the main enemy.KimJong-un is also determined not to seek unification with South Korea.

Reported by ANTARA from Yonhap, Monday, February 19, the image of the Korean Peninsula which is divided into North Korea and South Korea is seen as having been removed from the top of North Korea's Foreign Trade site, a site created to promote North Korea's trade and attract investment.

The red Korean Peninsulamap previously became an icon of the foreign language publisher page, namely Publications of the DPRK. The DPRK itself is the official name of North Korea, which stands for English for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The removal of the Korean Peninsula, which is considered a symbol of unification between the two countries, is a manifestation of Kim Jong-un's statement calling for a revision of the country's constitution at an important parliamentary meeting in January.

Kim asked his country to define South Korea as the main enemy and core enemy that cannot be changed, as well as to draw up a commitment to suppress South Korea's territory in the event of war.

Earlier in January, North Korea's state-owned broadcaster broadcast a map highlighting only the northern part of the Korean Peninsula in red, a move seen as an attempt to eliminate references to unification.

Later last week, Japanese broadcasting station NHK reported that North Korea had removed the phrase symbolizing Korea uniting from the lyrics of its national anthem.

The lyrics uploaded on the North Korean Foreign Ministry website do not contain the sentence "samcehonri" which means three thousand miles which refers to the length of the entire Korean Peninsula, or means about 1,200 kilometers that extend from the northern tip of North Korea to the southern resort island, Jeju.

Responding to the deletion of the lyrics, Seoul's Unification Ministry on Friday (16/2) voiced regret over North Korea's policy and regretted the move as an act that was not nationalist.