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North Korea ends assembly session without announcing unification policy changes

Kim Jong Un skips two-day SPA meeting despite demanding purge of pro-unification policy from constitution in January

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) concluded a two-day session on Tuesday without any public announcements on amending the constitution to reflect new policies on rejecting unification and redefining the border, despite leader Kim Jong Un demanding the changes earlier this year.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wednesday that the 11th Session of the 14th SPA appointed a new defense minister and adopted changes to minimum work and voting ages, as well as laws on light industry, external economic affairs and quality control in manufacturing.

The changes to work and voting ages involved the rubber-stamp parliament “amending and