North Korea has designated South Korea a "hostile state", its state media said on Thursday, confirming that its national assembly had amended the constitution in line with their leader's vow to drop unification as a national goal.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea confirmed Thursday that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as “a hostile state” for the first time, two days after it blew up front-line road and rail links that once connected the country with the South.

STORY: North Korea destroyed sections of roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas on Tuesday...... in what South Korean officials have called a "highly abnormal" act and a violation of past inter-Korean agreements.