South Korea will pursue neither unification by absorption nor any hostile acts towards North Korea, the vice unification minister mentioned Monday, reaffirming the coverage of President Lee Jae Myung’s authorities of constructing peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Vice Unification Minister Kim Nam-jung made the remarks throughout a gathering with residents of border areas at Camp Greaves, a former U.S. navy base-turned-field-trip website within the western border metropolis of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, slightly below the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 Koreas.
“To realize a peaceable Korean Peninsula with out the necessity for battle, the Lee Jae Myung authorities will acknowledge and respect the North Korean system and can neither pursue unification by absorption nor interact in any types of hostile acts,” Kim mentioned.
The vice minister mentioned inter-Korean relations deteriorated abnormally beneath the earlier Yoon Suk Yeol authorities, including that anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaigns on the border, in addition to North Korea’s retaliatory launch of trash-carrying balloons and blaring of loud noise, have induced injury to frame areas in the course of the interval.
“The elemental resolution to assuaging the affected by the division is establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Kim mentioned, emphasizing that now is an important time for the 2 Koreas to return to dialogue and calling on Pyongyang to reply to Seoul’s efforts for peace.
