# Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states

Date: 2023

## The fact

In late December 2023 [Kim Jong Un](/people/kim-jong-un) told the Supreme People’s Assembly that North and South Korea are two hostile states and that peaceful unification should be dropped. The Arch of Reunification later came down.

## Context

He said it. The SPA sat. A speech is not a unique peninsula casualty print. Later constitution work coded the break on other dates.

Two-state late December 2023; treaty June 2024. Keep dates. Keep Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states on 2023-12-30 separate from neighbouring nuclear-test, camp, Vostochny, treaty, and troop-despatch instruments.

The President of the State Affairs Commission commands the armed forces and signs treaties.

## Evidence and sources

KCNA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space) and closed-system doctrine, neighbouring missile-threat rather than renaming the Ukraine war.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Kim announced a two-hostile-states doctrine in late December 2023, independently recorded.

Not established: A unique 2023 war-start on that date, or a unique demolition-hour casualty print.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The SPA heard it. He did not write a South Korean statute.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states, not a later speech about Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states on 2023-12-30 is not a licence to treat every later KCNA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Kim tells the SPA that North and South are two hostile states into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He said it. The SPA heard it. He did not write a South Korean statute. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kim Jong-un: https://factrail.ai/people/kim-jong-un

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-kim-two-states-2023-12-31/
- https://kcnawatch.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kp-two-state-2023