The two Koreas have demolished some of their front-line guard posts, established buffer zones along their frontier and demilitarised their shared border village
South Korea stopped calling North Korea an “enemy” in its biennial defence document published Tuesday, an apparent effort to continue reconciliation with Pyongyang.
The development coincides with US and North Korean leaders trying to arrange their second summit to defuse an international stand-off over the North’s nuclear programme.
South Korea’s defence ministry white paper published and posted on its website doesn’t include typical terms labelling North Korea its “enemy”, “present enemy” or “main enemy”.
The terminologies have been a long-running source of animosity between the Koreas because the North called it a provocation that demonstrated how hostile the South was.
