North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South because of hostility, Kim Jong Un says

Open this photo in gallery: Visitors pass by a wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, on Jan. 10.Ahn Young-joon/The Associated Press North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North's constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, state media said Tuesday. The historic step to discard a decades-long pursuit of a peaceful unification, which was based on a sense of national homogeneity shared by both Koreas, comes amid heightened tensions where the pace of both Kim's weapons…