The North Korean Constitution now defines South Korea as a "hostile state," state-run media said Thursday, in the first indication of changes made during a parliamentary meeting last week.

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.

North Korea's state media reported on Thursday that road and rail links with South Korea are now completely blocked off after blasting large sections of them on Tuesday as legitimate action taken against "a hostile state" as defined by its constitution.

North Korea has defined South Korea as a “hostile state” in its constitution, driving a wedge deeper between the nations after Pyongyang stoked tensions earlier this week by blowing up its sections of roads that linked it to the southern part of the peninsula.

North Korea confirms that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as 'a hostile state' for 1st time

North Korean state media said on Wednesday around 1.4 million young people had applied to join or return to the army this week, blaming Seoul for a provocative drone incursion that had brought the "tense situation to the brink of war".

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.

North Korea said Thursday its constitution clearly defines South Korea as a "hostile state," the first time Pyongyang has confirmed the basic law has been revised in line with leader Kim Jong-un's order to codify the South as an enemy,

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.