SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea’s new government will seek to sign a peace treaty with the North if it abandons its nuclear weapons, a minister said Thursday (June 29) ..
SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea’s new government will seek to sign a peace treaty with the North if it abandons its nuclear weapons, a minister said Thursday (June 29) .
Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae Sung’s comments came hours before South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae In – who backs engagement with Pyongyang – was set to hold his first summit with US President Donald Trump, with the North’s growing nuclear and missile threats casting a long shadow.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because a peace treaty was never agreed to replace the 1953 armistice that ended the conflict on the peninsula.
The US – the South’s security guarantor – has 28,500 troops stationed in the country to protect it from its neighbour, and a treaty could entail their withdrawal, which has long been demanded by Pyongyang.
„We have to get over the current unstable system of armistice and put an end to the war on the Korean peninsula that has not yet ended, “ Chun said in a keynote speech at a seminar.
