Minister Kim Young-ho said, "North Korea may raise military tensions after stipulating the two countries."

Unification Minister Kim Young-ho said at the Supreme People's Assembly, which began yesterday, North Korea is likely to revise its constitution to make inter-Korean relations a "two hostile countries" and increase military tensions.

Kim made the remarks during a parliamentary audit of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee at the National Assembly today, saying the government will firmly deal with North Korea's anti-unification, anti-national and anti-peaceful behavior.

He then emphasized that he would make every effort to achieve peaceful unification based on the basic liberal democratic order even in an unprecedented unification environment, such as North Korea's hostile claim of relations between the two countries, the advancement of nuclear and missile, and military closeness between North Korea and Russia.

Earlier, North Korea announced that it would hold a Supreme People's Assembly yesterday to discuss the revision of the constitution, but given that no related reports were published in state media today, the meeting is estimated to be held for more than two days.