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Moon Jae-in urges US to declare end of war with North Korea

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The South Korean president said Pyongyang has taken steps to achieve peace and the US should take similar measures.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in  has urged the United States to consider the nuclear-armed North’s demands for a declaration that the Korean War is over.
The message from the South Korean leader to the US came even as the two allies pursue increasingly different approaches towards Pyongyang.
Washington has shied away from a formal announcement that the 1950-53 conflict, when hostilities ceased with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, has ended, saying that the North must first take more steps towards giving up its nuclear arsenal .
For its part Pyongyang – which long insisted it needed nuclear weapons to defend itself against a possible US invasion – has pledged only to work towards denuclearisation “of the Korean peninsula”, demanding simultaneous moves by Washington in return, with a peace declaration its first priority.
“The North has stopped all nuclear and missile tests, dismantled its only nuclear test site and is now dismantling its missile engine test facilities, and is promising to take steps toward dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear complex if the US takes corresponding measures,” Moon told the BBC.
“Declaring the end of the war is a political declaration that the US would end decades of hostile relations with the North,” he said.

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