North Korea left South Korean territory blank on a revised map of the divided peninsula, labeling it with a term that suggests Pyongyang has moved further toward treating the South as a separate and hostile nation instead of a future reunification partner.
Divided for more than 75 years into the communist North and the pro-U.S. South, the two rival states have moved in sharply different economic and political directions despite their longstanding professed shared goal of eventual reunification.