"Remove unification of North Korea and Taekwondo...Promote to change the name of Poomsae"

North Korea, which declared "two hostile countries" late last year and started to unify and erase its people, is seeking to change the name of Taekwondo's "Unification Pumsae," U.S. Radio Free Asia and RFA reported.

Based on the official document of the International Taekwondo Federation, the broadcaster said at the executive board meeting in Pyongyang in August that it discussed changing the name of Pumsae Unification to "Changhoon," the pen name of Choi Hong-hee, and that it will be confirmed at the general meeting in October next year.

The International Taekwondo Federation is an organization that developed under the leadership of North Korea when Choi defected to Canada after establishing it in Seoul in 1966, and it is different from the South Korean-led World Taekwondo Federation.

The International Taekwondo Federation's unification pumsae name seems to be an extension of a series of unification and ethnic erasure after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's declaration of the "two-state theory," RFA analyzed.