Moon said he seeks to embark on “an irreversible path to peace,” referring to the desire to adopt a declaration of peace with North Korea.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said today that will insist on its attempt to achieve diplomatic advances and peace negotiations with North Korea in his final months in office, before his five-year term ends in May.
“I will not loosen in the efforts to institutionalize a sustainable peace” with Pyongyang, Moon said on Monday in his last New Year’s speech at the head of the country, which he considers that he still has a long way to go to improve inter-Korean relations, according to the words collected. by Yonhap news agency.
Moon said he seeks to embark on “an irreversible path to peace.”, in an apparent reference to the initiative of his Government to adopt a declaration of peace with North Korea and other countries to end the technically current Korean War (1950-53), the civil conflict that led to the current division of the peninsula and ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
Seoul said last week that it had agreed “virtually” with Washington on the draft of a declaration to end the war, which would have the approval of Beijing, although official sources from both powers have chosen to remain silent, and Pyongyang has not either. Made no mention of the proposal.
“If we resume dialogue and cooperation, the international community will respond,” added Moon, who hopes that “dialogue efforts will also continue in the next administration” and insisted that “Peace is an essential prerequisite for prosperity” that “tends to break down if not institutionalized”.
In his own New Year’s speech at the conclusion of a major one-party plenary to outline the country’s national policy and diplomacy roadmap, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un did not mention the calls from the South or make a allusion to the stalled denuclearization negotiations with the United States.
Moon would seek with the proposal to promote the slow dialogue, although the fact that he intends to sign a declaration, and not a peace treaty, underscores that it would not actually be a binding agreement.
The denuclearization dialogue has been stalled since the failed Hanoi summit in 2019, due to the “hostile policy” that North Korea considers that the US maintains towards the regime. (I)
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